Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution to surviving where soil offers almost nothing.

Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris has me investigating Sarracenia for this week’s garden study. Sarracenia is the name of a group of plants that, to put it bluntly, eat meat. Lots of animals eat plants ...

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...