Experience the magical growth of a Drosera cape sundew from a seedling to sticky traps, and blooming flowers In this stunning 164-day time-lapse. Notable scenes include the sundew catching ...

Discover how cape sundew plants growing and eating insects in this epic time-lapse. Sundew seeds were planted in a pot with peat moss and perlite in a ratio 1:1. We placed the pot in a terrarium and ...

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...

If you have houseplants, most of the time there’s not a lot of visible activity. They just quietly add some outdoor beauty to your indoor surroundings. A trapped insect is slowly digested by a Cape ...

Meet the Drosera Capensis, also known as the Cape sundew. It’s a deadly little thing that looks like some sort of alien finger trap but it’s actually a carnivorous plant with sticky tentacles that ...

Natural inspiration: the Cape sundew plant is inspiring a robotic limb. With 29 bones, 123 ligaments and 34 muscles pulling the strings, the human hand is a feat of nature’s engineering. It lets us ...

In a plot right out of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” an IUPUC lecturer is making a serious dent in the gnat and fruit fly population on campus. When Barbara Hass-Jacobus heard that IUPUC faculty and ...

The way that some plants such as the Venus flytrap and Cape sundew move so quickly and precisely has always fascinated scientists. Plants move with biological necessity, whether it is to feast on ...

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