2026 has been a surprisingly good year for Monarch caterpillars and butterflies (so far)   We launched 30 butterflies by mid March. It's been a strange year for the monarch butterfly migration at our place.  We didn’t get any caterpillars the fall like you’d expect. We got one in October, a handful in November and more in December.  In January, we were finding caterpillars every time we checked the milkweed. We had over 20 caterpillars in the enclosure.   Caring for that ma

May 19, 2020 The frog is back in my pitcher plants. I believe it's the same frog I've seen before. He has the same yellow spot between...

A strange white insect has shown up on my Sarracenia. I noticed what appeared to be spider webs appearing on numerous pitchers. On...

5/12/2020 I have seen these red ants repeatedly stealing from the drosera spatulata. I posted earlier of them stealing a fly. I figured...

I haven't looked inside the Sarracenia Catesbaei x Purpurea x Flava lately. There are a ton of ants in every pitcher. I'm not sure why...

April 19, 2020 The ants are up to something again. They’ve stolen prey from my drosera and now they are trying to steal prey from my...

Spider Sightings April 23, 2020 Spotted some spiders amongst the pitchers. They sometimes make a home in sarracenia. The pitchers offer...

Two ants are fighting deep in a S. Leucophylla pitcher, at around 2 minutes. It looks like the black ant is trying to sting the red ant....

The ants are up to something again. Now they are stealing prey from my Drosera. Don’t they know carnivorous plants eat ants? ...

I have a frog in one of the newly opened s. Leucophylla. Perhaps it's tunnel vision, but it is somewhat disconcerting to be looking for...

April 12, 20202 Still looking for the Pitcher Plant Mosquito in the first opened Sarracenia BugBat pitcher, but I keep finding ants,...

April 5, 2020 The S. Leucophylla has produced a bunch of early season pitchers (Leucophylla typically produce more pitchers in the fall) ...

April 3 2020 The first S. Judith Hindle pitcher opened and the mites are already colonizing the pitcher. They are deep in Zone 3 of the...

T-rex likes carnivorous plants, too. I was inspired to bring out Rex by The Texas Triffid Ranch which bills itself as Dallas's Pretty...

I’ve seen many strange things inside pitcher plants. Countless ants, moths and wasps have been trapped only to be eaten by the mitey...

Found a green spider. I put him in the pitcher plant container. Hopefully, I will see him again.

Prepare to Abandon Hope, All Ye Ants Who Enter Here! One of my newest pitcher plant has opened. I got the S. “Abandoned Hope” because I...

March 25, 2020 The S. Yellow Jacket was the second to have a pitcher open. I didn’t spot any mites on the lip of the pitcher. There are...

March 17, 2020 Spring is here. The flowers are in bloom and new pitchers are growing. The first pitcher to open this season is a large...

I found a frog hiding in my car the other day. So I brought him home and put him in my larger pitcher plant pot. The next day I found...