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Non-insect-eating insectivorous plant
Probably the one thing one could guess about an insectivorous plant is that it ‘eats’ insects. Take for example one of the most iconic entomophagous botanics of them all, the Venus fly-trap (Dionaea...
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The plant that farms other plants for food
The genus Utricularia is a collection of over 200 species of carnivorous plant found around the world. Above the ground, they look pretty, but not particularly odd. However, below the leaf shoots come...
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UV light can guide flies to an Utterly Voracious plant
Good eyesight might attract fruit flies to carnivorous plants, but it can also help flies avoid an untimely death, say Carney and colleagues in a new paper in Bios. “The results of the studies...
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How important is meat to a curious carnivorous plant?
Normally if you want to find a carnivorous plant in the wild, the best places to head are where it’s sunny and wet. In water-logged and nutrient-poor soils you can find carnivorous plants like sundews...
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Daphnia are bite-size for the carnivorous waterwheel plant
The Venus Fly Trap is not the only carnivorous plant with a snap-trap. Aldrovanda vesiculosa, the waterwheel plant, has one too but it’s not always been clear how it works. Simon Poppinga and...
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The Chemical Tools of Carnivorous Plants
Secondary metabolites are the compounds that a plant produces that don’t have an immediate role in the growth or reproduction of a plant. These would be things like pigments for petals, or...
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How to eat bugs without really trying? Insights from the genomes of...
Obtaining essential nutrients is a task that all plants have to perform. The majority of plants manage perfectly well via obtaining nutrients through rooting systems from the soil or ground material....
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Buckleria paludum, the caterpillar that has a taste for danger
Buckleria paludum is a plume moth found in moorland and peat bogs. Like many moths, it likes to find the right plant for its young, but its choice of plant suggests that these moths have a deep...
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A carnivorous plant that feeds its pollinators
We often think of carnivorous plants as predators, feeding on insects and other prey captured by their specialised leaves, but that’s not the only role carnivorous plants play. It might sound strange,...
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Newly recognised carnivorous plant Triantha occidentalis
You can listen to this page as an audio file. https://anchor.fm/botanyone/episodes/Newly-recognised-carnivorous-plant-Triantha-occidentalis-e166uqi When picking roses, one has to be careful with the...
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