Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Maryland Department of Natural Resources- Wildlife & Heritage Service/Facebook The dwarf sundew is the smallest of ...

In early June, I went with a few friends to check out some muskegs at Eaglecrest. In addition to the common round-leaf sundew, we found some long-leaf sundews already making flower buds. Both of these ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) -- A newly discovered plant is growing right here in Maryland. Botanists recently confirmed the discovery of dwarf sundew -- also known as Drosera brevifolia -- where it ...

In 1860, a year after publication of his seminal work on the origin of species, Charles Darwin wrote to a friend, “At the moment, I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

Sometimes strange scenes of nature are acted out right in our neighborhood, and we might pass by without a notice. During this hot month of July, insects abound. It seems as no surprise that these ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, lurid tales of killer plants began popping up everywhere. Terrible, tentacle-waving trees snatched and swallowed unwary travelers in far-off lands. Mad professors ...