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 ...

If you have houseplants, most of the time there’s not a lot of visible activity. They just quietly add some outdoor beauty to your indoor surroundings. A trapped insect is slowly digested by a Cape ...

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 ...

DULUTH -- The annual search for rare plants across Wisconsin has turned up a meat-eating plant in Ashland County that hasn’t been seen in the state in 45 years. The English sundew (Drosera anglica), a ...

Of all the plant world’s oddities--giants, stinkers, living rocks--none grabs the mind like a carnivore, a plant that dines on flesh, reducing hapless bugs to skeletons. While other greens gorge on ...

“If it captures lots of insects, it produces more leaves and more traps.” Today there are some 800 known carnivorous species. Some, like pitcher plants and many sundews, are passive receivers of prey ...