I continued walking slowly along the boardwalk, stopping periodically to peer into the thick vegetation, searching for purple pitcher plants, which I hadn’t seen in several years. I walked to ...

The Purple Pitcher Plant is a North American native, mainly found in bogs and swamps. Its tubular, purple-hued leaves evolved to trap and digest insects, making it a fascinating carnivorous plant.

Many carnivorous plants have special glands that secrete enzymes powerful enough to penetrate the hard exoskeleton of insects so they can absorb nutrients from inside their prey. But the purple ...

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 ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

Smallpox, one of the biggest killers in history, is caused by a virus called variola. Variola causes a distinctive rash and is often lethal. The name variola comes from the Latin word for “spotted” ...

Not so with smallpox. To create this vaccine, you begin with another virus that is similar to the smallpox virus, yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body.

But nature has so much more to it! Did you know some plants actually eat animals? Yes, it is indeed true and immensely fascinating, right? These carnivorous plant species have unique ways of ...

as well as various pitcher plants (species of Sarracenia) which are rather broadly distributed in the Southeast. Our Mystery Plant (Purple bladderwort, Utricularia purpurea), however, is a ...

is a little complicated; it’s not a plant, animal, or fungus, but it is harmless if you find it in your yard and can be beneficial to biodiversity. Purple pitcher plants are one of the only ...

Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox is the only one to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. The few known remaining samples are under heavy guard in research labs ...

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...