Triggering a Venus flytrap takes the lightest touch from an insect’s wing or a spider’s legs. Unlike many plants, the Venus flytrap doesn’t only get nutrition from photosynthesis. Readers learn all about how the Venus flytrap draws in bugs to eat, as well as how they’re digested by the plant. The main content includes science curriculum information such as plant structures, habitat facts, and other unique elements of this plant’s life cycle. Fun fact boxes and full-color photographs provide readers with the juicy details of how the trap works and what it looks like in action.

Triggering a Venus flytrap takes the lightest touch from an insect’s wing or a spider’s legs. Unlike many plants, the Venus flytrap doesn’t only get nutrition from photosynthesis. Readers learn all about how the Venus flytrap draws in bugs to eat, as well as how they’re digested by the plant. The main content includes science curriculum information such as plant structures, habitat facts, and other unique elements of this plant’s life cycle. Fun fact boxes and full-color photographs provide readers with the juicy details of how the trap works and what it looks like in action.

For use in schools and libraries only. Easy-to-read text explains how these unique plants attract, capture, and ingest their meals.

Explains how and why pitcher plants, sundews, and other carnivorous plants trap insects for food.

The plant world is explored from A to Z, with a poem to introduce each topic, and an expository text that provides details.

The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.

Over 200 species, hybrids, and cultivars from all genera of carnivorous plants are described in this comprehensive volume. Detailed cultivation advice is provided to enable readers to select and place the right plants, while information on how to feed carnivorous plants will enable even the most squeamish grower to ensure that plants receive the nutrients they require.

This kit contains everything you need to start your own garden of insect devouring plants: Approximately 20 seeds, seed starter, mini terrarium, and full-color manual. This awesome kit contains everything you need to grow your own Dionaea muscipula, otherwise known as the Venus Fly Trap. The book includes photos of the plant along with other carnivorous plants as well as simple step-by-step instructions for the care and feeding of your plants.

Plants, as is now becoming widely recognised, exploit animals in almost as many ways as animals use plants; only rarely, however, do they eat animals in the sense of catching, holding, and devouring prey. The manner, however, in which they function as carnivores grants insights into plant form, function, and evolution not otherwise readily available. The diversity of morphological, biochemical, and commensal features generates both the lay and the scientific interest in this diverse group. The carnivorous plants exhibit features which are common to many other non-carnivorous plants. However the extent to which these features have developed and the combination of different features in small organs is unique and therefore, can be exploited by using these plants as models for scientific research.