carnivorous plants

Describes some of the more extreme ways plants protect themselves and find nourishment, describing plants that eat meat, trap their prey, and even give themselves a hug.

Photographs and text describe flytraps, sundews, butterworts, and other plants that consume insects, worms, and even small frogs.

Discusses meat-eating plants, their life cycles, how they lure their prey, where different species are located, and what is being done to protect endangered carnivorous plants and their habitats.

Photographs and text describe how carnivorous plants eat different types of insects and animals, profiling the various types of carnivorous plants and their place in the life cycle.

Presents photographs and descriptions of forty-five species and numerous hybrids of carnivorous plants that grow in the United States and Canada, and includes range maps.

Uses close-up photography and text to provide information about meat-eating, or carnivorous plants, explaining where these plants live, why they need to eat insects, and how they trap their prey, and including tips on growing and investigating carnivorous plants.

Describes the Venus's flytrap, sundew, butterwort, bladderwort, fungus, pitcher plant, and cobra plant.

Elizabite, an unusual Venus flytrap, bites everything in sight and finally wins fame by capturing a burglar.

Presents a study of certain plants that produce poisons to trap insects such as the pitcher plant, Venus Flytrap, and milkweed.

Describes the curious behavior of salmon, lemmings, whales, caribou, and insectivorous plants.