Silas Mohlar, aquatic invasive species coordinator for the 30 Mile River Watershed Association, holds up invasive swollen bladderwort plants on Tilton Pond in Fayette. Since the plant was discovered ...

What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

Swollen bladderwort is an invasive, carnivorous plant that has been spotted in eight bodies of water in Maine. It eats insect larvae and water fleas, forming mats on the surface of the water. The ...

Take a look inside the bladder of an aquatic bladderwort plant. You can see the single-celled algae, called desmids, that it has consumed. They will be digested to provide the plant with needed ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages. That’s one lesson to be learned from the carnivorous bladderwort, a plant whose tiny genome turns out to be a jewel ...

Try not to fall into the gaping maw of this aquatic plant known as a bladderwort. If a small organism touches the trigger hairs on the “trapdoor” shown in this image, a quick flow of water sucks the ...

Carnivorous plants are faced with the difficult task of catching animal prey that utilize high-speed nervous systems adept at avoiding such attacks. Aquatic bladderworts, plants that feast on insect ...

Carnivorous bladderwort (which is in fact a real plant, and not some insidious greenery from the Harry Potter series) has some mind-bending genetic material. According to a new study published in ...