Kay Harris couldn’t help but open the package. It didn’t matter that the intended recipient, her son, wasn’t there or even in the country when the mail came that day. Patience slipped away at the ...

The insect-eating Venus flytrap is found naturally in a 90-mile radius around Wilmington, N.C. A wildfire burned through the Green Swamp Preserve, a key habitat for the rare plant, but managers of the ...

BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (WECT) - Documentary filmmaker Robert Ford is from London, but he’s always had a fondness for a plant that grows across the Atlantic Ocean in Southeastern North Carolina. “I ...

In the 1960 (and 1986 remake) of the film Little Shop of Horrors, a florist discovers that his oversized Venus flytrap has an unsettling taste for human blood. While both movies are completely ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. An iconic plant found in the Carolinas — and nowhere else in the world — needs our help ...