…federally protect the Venus flytrap doesn’t mean this unique species is secure. To ensure that wild Venus flytraps remain part of our Carolina natural heritage, consider what you might do: Ask landowners with Venus flytraps on their property to request assistance at Venus Flytrap Champions. This organization recognizes and assists…
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Volunteers help remove Venus flytraps from harm’s way
…site where the plants are being relocated. Leery of poachers — it is a felony to poach Venus flytraps — Moore asked Coastal Review not disclose the locations of where the flytraps are being removed and relocated. The plants are being replanted within town-owned and -managed land. Venus flytraps lack…
Venus Flytrap: History of the ‘Tippitywichit’
…talks with Barbara Walters to promote the Venus flytrap on the “Today Show” in 1976. Photo: Courtesy of Cape Fear Museum. Through time, many folks have spoken the virtues of the Venus flytrap. Longtime Director of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, Louis T. Moore, used the plant as one of…
Venus Flytraps Don’t Eat Their Pollinators
Checkered beetle on a Venus flytrap blossom. Photo: Elsa Youngsteadt RALEIGH – While most people are familiar with Venus flytraps and their snapping jaws, there is still a lot that scientists don’t know about the biology of these carnivorous plants. Researchers have for the first time discovered which insects pollinate…
Venus Flytrap Could Get Federal Protection
Roger and Dale Shew made a photographic record of one of their Green Swamp research plots before and after poaching. Photo: Courtesy Roger Shew. The beleaguered Venus flytrap, one of the Carolinas’ claims to scientific fame, may be on the way to a better, more protected future. The relatively small,…
The Insect Assassin Sends Poachers to Prison
…by up to 25 months in prison. Photo: Tess Malijenovsky On Dec. 1 it will become a felony in North Carolina to poach Venus flytraps from the wild, punishable by up to 25 months in prison. Unlike most plants, the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) moves. It secretes a sweet-smelling nectar…
Symbol of Home: The Linnean Society’s Venus Flytrap
Venus flytrap. Photo: File Coastal Review Online is featuring the work of North Carolina historian David Cecelski, who writes about the history, culture and politics of the North Carolina coast. Cecelski shares on his website essays and lectures he has written about the state’s coast as well as brings readers along on…
Green Swamp now turning green again after burn, wildfire
…for Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants. During the winter they go dormant; in the spring, they revive, unfurling new green leaves. Their diet of insects is an adaptation that helps them make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil. A 2020 study of the Venus flytrap genome…
Event to Celebrate Role of Fire in Pine Forests
…fire crosses them, plants that use smoke for pollination and other plants that don’t seed until they are burned. Some plants, such as the Venus flytrap, pitcher plant and orchids, depend on fire to remove grasses and other vegetation so their seeds can grow in bare ground. Forests that develop…
Hike the Green Swamp
SUPPLY — Beneath an airy canopy of tall, slender longleaf pines, eye-catching pops of bright colors – yellow, red, pink and purple – bloom from orchids and pitcher plants. Among a sea of lush, green bracken fern and wispy grass, tiny Venus flytraps – little jewels native only to select…
Protecting the Green Swamp
…a number of rare plants, including the savanna indigo bush, which is a state threatened species, the Venus flytrap and pondspice. Pinch Gut is biologically rich and is home to a number of rare plants, like the pondspice. Photo: Virginia Winn, S.C. Association of Naturalists The savannah indigo bush, a…
An iForest in Brunswick County
…pine savannahs and variety of unusual plants and flowers, the Brunswick County forest has been a conservation priority. The forest is home to rare orchids and carnivorous plants, including the Venus flytrap and pitcher plants. It’s also inhabited by several rare species of woodpeckers, sparrows and butterflies. The forest is…
