26 October 1970 It is not, perhaps, a sensible time of year to look for the red sundew as red and gold are now the dominant colours in the bog KESWICK: I wonder if most people realise how many hours ...

A FEMALE correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin, Lady Ellen Lubbock, sent him part of a poem she wrote after reading his work Insectivorous Plants (1875). It included the verse: Beginning all to ...

Insect-eating sundew plants among 17,500 reintroduced as part of carbon-sequestering conservation scheme After a 100-year absence, ruthless carnivores are flourishing again on a peat bog near Garstang ...

Insect-eating plants are among the 17,000 species which have been reintroduced to a Lancashire nature reserve. Lancashire Wildlife Trust has returned the plants to Winmarleigh Moss, as it works to ...

The Round-leaved Sundew is the commonest insectivorous plant found in bogs and wet, acid ground throughout Ireland. It has round leaves covered with crimson-coloured, sticky, gland-tipped hairs each ...

This tree frog has chosen an excellent hunting spot. The stink of the pitcher will attract love bugs, gnats, beetles and other prey items. The frog simply waits for something to land within easy reach ...

Pitcher plants liquefy and drink their crawling food. Sundew catch bugs like flypaper, the leaves curling around stuck beetles. Floating moss turns the water acidic, suitable for wild cranberries ...

Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor soil ...