Conservationists are pushing for the Venus fly trap to be South Carolina’s official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird (Carolina Wren), state opera (Porgy and Bess) ...

Read full article: St. Johns County employee’s harassment allegations spark call for independent review Rayonier Advanced Materials in Fernandina Beach. Read full article: Admitted gunman in Jared ...

Venus’ flytraps can be bought legally at a variety of stores. Fly Trap Farm, a well-known wholesaler in Brunswick County, sells flytraps to small garden centers, greenhouses and botanical gardens in ...

The Venus flytrap plant might conjure up images of the vicious, man-eating plant from the 1980s movie “Little Shop of Horrors,” but in reality the carnivorous plant is a species that must be protected ...

Plants aren't typically known for their speed. But the carnivorous Venus flytrap can close its jaw-like leaves in the blink of an eye. Charles Darwin once referred to the Venus flytrap as "one of the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Conservationists are pushing for the Venus fly trap to be South Carolina's official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird (Carolina Wren), state opera ...

The carnivorous Venus flytrap plant can snap its clamshell leaves around an insect in less than a second. But how? Unlike animals, plants have no muscles or brains. And plants are not known for their ...

Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would like to ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Conservationists are pushing for the Venus fly trap to be South Carolina's official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird (Carolina Wren), state opera ...