(Ed Reschke / Peter Arnold) Two castes of paper wasps are genetically identical. Larvae turn into either workers or potential queens, depending on the behavior of adults, say University of Wisconsin ...

An unfamiliar sound caught my attention. The day wasn’t cloudy but the smoke and ash and dust from fires far to the west obscured the blueness and rendered the sky a uniformly pale gray. I found the ...

I am fascinated by carnivorous plants, and I cultivate a large collection of them, including several species that live in water. These aquatic carnivorous plants, known as bladderworts, reside in one ...

Common bladderwort was one of Charles Darwin's favorite plants. This aquatic, carnivorous plant is blooming in ponds and bogs right now, and is one of the most interesting plants you are likely to ...

New findings have been gained on the biomechanics and evolution of suction traps in carnivorous bladderworts. Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They ...

Suffocated in slime. Drowned and dissolved in a deep cauldron of death. Snatched-up, sealed-in, and soupified in a sepulchral sack of enzymatic slurry. The above may seem like an excerpt from a ...

A carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage, a new study finds. The study is the first to ...

Carnivorous plants catch and digest tiny animals in order and derive benefits for their nutrition. Interestingly the trend towards vegetarianism seems to overcome carnivorous plants as well. The ...

I continue my columns on the carnivorous plants of Indiana with the bladderwort family. In past columns, I featured the Venus flytrap, sundew and pitcher plant. Two of these are native plants in ...