Thousands of carnivorous and rare tropical plants are hidden inside greenhouses on a dusty Hill Country road. For the first ...

Pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.), also known as tropical pitcher plants or Asian pitcher plants, are colorful carnivorous plants that feed on insects by capturing them in cup-shaped structures that ...

Pitcher plants: Plants in genera like Nepenthes and Sarracenia capture insects in their liquid-filled cups or tubelike structures. Some species of pitcher plants can grow quite large, so they may ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

The trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant ... explaining the evolution of temporarily inactive traps in carnivorous pitcher plants' by Bauer et al in Proc. R. Soc.

Which is why he developed the Nepenthes tool. It shares its name with the carnivorous pitcher plant. The only difference is that the Nepenthes program doesn't catch insects, but web crawlers ...

If you’ve ever wanted to experience a tiny slice of life from a bug’s vantage point, now’s your chance. The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum hosts “Savage Gardens: The ...