Summer is the perfect time to enjoy your garden in full bloom, but pesky insects can sometimes turn your paradise into a ...

Carnivorous plants capture and digest insects to obtain nutrients, adapting to nutrient-poor soils. Their modified leaves, or pitchers, trap prey with slippery walls and hairs, leading to drowning ...

This frightening plant is known not only to eat insects but also small mammals, enabling it to fulfill its nutritional needs and flourish in nutrient-poor soils. The Venus flytrap, also known as ...

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and ...

Cancel anytime. There’s a fascination with plants that eat bugs. There’s a fascination with plants that eat bugs. “Normally we don’t see that in our day-to-day life,” says Andrew Gierys ...

This column is written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that ...

A team of Australian researchers has identified a new species of extinct sawfly from an exceptionally well-preserved fossil.

These bugs live in many different environments as long as a healthy population of aphids is nearby. This is why you might see ...

But they, too, feed heavily on insects, particularly during the breeding season. The same is true for Carolina chickadees. In fact, a nest of chickadees can eat up to 300 caterpillars in a single day.

The U.S. Agriculture Department found dozens of violations at a Boar's Head plant in Virginia — including insects ... 7 million pounds of "ready-to-eat meat and poultry products" from the ...

True bugs, like boxelder bugs, and others such as cicadas have a long beak shaped like a needle. The proboscis acts like a straw, allowing them to pierce, then suck juices out of plants and ...