Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick ...

Jeremiah Harris has broken the largest Venus flytrap trap record three times, with his latest giant measuring 6.6 cm.

In this video, I hatched 1,000 flies and placed them in a container with 50 Venus flytrap plants. Will the large number of ...

As far as plants go, Venus flytraps are pretty hardcore. After attracting its prey with a fruity scent and trapping it inside its leaves, the flytrap slowly digests the insect for 5 to 12 days, ...

To trap its prey, the Venus flytrap sends rapid electrical impulses, which are generated in response to touch or stress. But the molecular identity of the touch sensor has remained unclear. Japanese ...

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another. Reading time 3 minutes A study out this week appears to have solved one of the ...