With a deadly trap, snapping tentacles and catapulting action, it sounds like a terrifying predator more suited to the animal world. But in fact, the small sundew from Australia is believed the be the ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

A killer plant with a cunning trick could one day be routinely used in a series of medical procedures, research shows. The sundew plant is aptly named. Each leaf is covered with tiny ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

Nobody likes a mooch. If you've ever had a friend who makes a habit or rummaging around in your fridge the moment they walk into your place you know exactly what I'm talking about, but apparently the ...

Why do some insect-eating plants like sundews keep their flowers so far away from their traps? New research suggests that it isn't a clever trick to keep pollinators safe, it's about getting ...

The roundleaf sundew looks like something out of an alien movie, a tiny plant with tentacle-like stems extending in a rose pattern and red hairs sticking out from the leaves. It’s not a typical ...

Do you have small black flies hovering around your houseplants? These are called fungus gnats, or sciarid flies. They are mostly harmless but can be very annoying. So what is the best way to get rid ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Fifteen small sundew plants perch on a windowsill collecting sunlight and eating meat in ...

The Round-Leaved Sundew, a unique plant recently discovered in Kentucky. The Round-Leaved Sundew is an interesting plant for a couple of reasons: It grows in remote, wet environments, like somewhere ...