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...

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,...

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 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...

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

Feb 25, 2020 Since I’ve been growing carnivorous plants, I’ve seen many flies captured and eaten by mites. This is the first time the...

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...

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...

The Blobs: Inquilines and Commensals in Sarracenia The pitchers of Sarracenia capture a wide variety of prey, as the pencam shows. But...

A new monster in the S. Yellow Jacket. Just in time for Halloween. A new monster has appeared in one of the Yellow Jacket pitchers. I...

Sept 14 2019 Spotted a new sea monster lurking in a S. Yellow Jacket pitcher. It's huge (relative to the blobs/ mites), around the size...

Aug 25 The spider is still nesting in the same S. Bugbat pitcher. He’s been there since June. He survived sharing the pitcher with a...

Nothing to do with carnivorous plants except it's pot is next to the sarracenia planter. The Red Dragon Flower, Huernia schneideriana, is...

A few examples of compound eyes over the last 500 million years ago. Trilobite fossil at the rock show.

Jan 12 2019 This is the same short Leucophylla pitcher with the ants from Jan 12, The ants have died and, a big fly with large red eyes...

20181211 Its early Dec. and the Leucophyll is capturing Ladybugs now. And a fly or two. No ants in this or the other pitcher plants...

Feb 3 2019 I frequently see water droplets inside of pitcher plants. Not sure if this is from condensation or these are rain drops that...