Large language model AI companies have been aggressively scraping content off the web for years, and many of them are known ...

Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...

Nepenthes alata: Endemic to the Philippines, this lowland species grows large red pitchers and is ideal for first-time growers. Nepenthes ventricosa: Another beginner-friendly pitcher plant, this ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them.

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

The trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant, swarming with nectar-collecting ants. Research from the University of Bristol, UK, has found that, by 'switching off' its traps for part of ...

Sophisticated chemistry helps make the pitcher a death trap. Nepenthes rafflesiana, a pitcher plant that grows in jungles on Borneo, produces nectar that both lures insects and forms a slick ...

And these plants are especially impressive on Mount Kinabalu, with some species producing ‘pitchers the size of house cats.’ The Nepenthes pitcher plants of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.

One species of tropical pitcher plant is actually named after Sir David Attenborough - the Nepenthes attenboroughii. Sometimes referred to as a living fossil, Welwitschia mirabilis is known to ...

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