The term "carnivorous plant" seems almost like an oxymoron. What makes them so different from other plants? Should you feed them? And, why did the Venus flytraps we bought as kids never survive?

Mike chomps down on answers from Josh Brown with Predatory Plants in Half Moon Bay and Shawn Lyons at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. 

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