Our guide makes it easy to keep a Venus fly trap alive. Learn what to feed the carnivorous plant (and how often), how to ...

The small Venus fly trap, for example, thrives in a very small native range in the Carolinas. A noteworthy giant of carnivorous plants is the Nepenthes rajah, a large, rare plant that grows in Borneo.

Insect-eating Venus flytraps thrive in the Carolinas as hikers peek into their native ecosystem. ... Venus flytraps are the size of a lima bean and pose no harm to anything other than insects.

Venus flytraps need abundant sunlight and soils that are moist but not drenched. And they don’t have to eat bugs if they can get enough nutrients from photosynthesis. Please don’t feed them ...

Some of the most unique living things in the world — plants that supplement the nutrients they get from sunlight by digesting ants, flies and spiders — are only found in a small part of North ...

Home » Animals & Pets » Insect-eating Venus flytraps thrive ... Venus flytraps bloom from about mid-May to mid-June, Anderson said. The flytrap is a fragile plant that needs fire to survive.

Park ranger Jesse Anderson searches for Venus flytraps during a weekly carnivorous plant hike Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Carolina Beach, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco) ...

Insect-eating Venus flytraps thrive in the Carolinas as hikers peek into their native ecosystem. May 26, 2025, 9:04 PM.

Now is an especially good time to take that hike. Venus flytraps bloom from about mid-May to mid-June, Anderson said. The flytrap is a fragile plant that needs fire to survive.