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? ...

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

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...

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

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...

A vast slime mite army is dining on a dead fly in S. Catesbaei Purpurea Flava. It is hard to tell that it’s a fly under the slimy layer...

March 2, 2020 I was checking on the Yellow Jacket that is trapped in the S. Leucophylla. The poor guy got turned around and is now face...

Spring is here and the drosera are growing like weeds. Here are a few random drosera pictures. (Older Drosera pictures are here....

Feb. 23, 2020 The S. Yellow Jacket is not the biggest pitcher plant, but it never fails to host stange and frequently creepy, commensal...

Feb 17, 2020 I’m always finding new commensal animals in S. Yellow Jacket. I think I spotted rotifers feeding on ants. I am sure...

Dec 28 2019 There is a new creature feeding in the S. Leucophylla, not sure what it is but it looks like a brown inchworm. I spotted...

Dec 28 2019 Not sure why the S. Leucophylla seem to be trapping only flies. Not sure if it's fly season, if the pitcher is attracting...

Now here's something you don't see everyday (unless you have a pitcher plant and a pencam) An ant riding wasp or yellow jacket, both of...

Nov 16 2019 Check out the big nose on this guy. He is trapped in one of the S. Leucophylla pitchers. It took a few tries to get the a...