Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Millions of years ago, a carnivorous plant used tiny tentacles to trap insects, according to scientists writing in ...
Working with Baltic amber from the Eocene epoch, researchers have discovered fossilized carnivorous plant traps for the first time ever. These leaves from insect-eating flowering plants are between 35 ...
A flesh-eating plant that grew in Russia about 40 million years ago has been discovered by scientists. Its fossilised leaves, preserved in Baltic amber, are strewn with multi-cellular stalked glands ...
Most insects landing on the natural fly paper plant, Roridula grogonias, are in for a sticky end. However, mirid bugs that make the sticky plants their homes seem immune to the alluring adhesive. So ...
Native to South Africa, Roridula is a carnivorous plant with a twist: It doesn’t actually digest the insects it captures with its sticky hairs but leaves this task to a bug species called Pameridea ...
This release is available in German. There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South African's have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of ...
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