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The underground world of carnivorous plant smuggling

For those who collect carnivorous plants, the obsession can almost eat them alive. Wired contributor Brian Howey joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the bug-eating nepenthes family of plants, the growers who can build their whole worlds around collecting these specimens, and how they sometimes run afoul of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His article is called “When a Houseplant Obsession Becomes a Nightmare.”