Carnivorous plants attract, trap and digest animals for the nutrients they contain. There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to science. Although most meat-eating plants ...

A hungry fly darts through the pines in North ... pushed these plants toward a taste for meat. Carnivorous plants clearly benefit from eating animals; when the scientists feed pitcher plants ...

However, it also has some unusual plants that eat insects and arachnids, including the Venus flytrap, which is native to North and South Carolina, as well as purple pitcher plants (or frogs ...