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

Feb 2019 I have been focusing recently on getting decent video of individual blobs which can be challenging for the pencam that 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...

Amongst the problems filming inside pitcher plants is that the subjects are very small and they never sit still and smile for the camera....

Warning Adult Content? Sept 4 2019 I was filming the Blobs in S. Yellow Jacket and I think I got a little too much personal information. ...

Aug 15 Got a Sarracenia “Yellow Jacket” earlier from petflytrap.com. To quote their info: This hybrid is the result of a...

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...

June 2019 I picked up a few new pitcher plants from my friends at petflytrap. Got a medium sized Sarracenia readii x moorei. It was...

Blobs on a penny. This is the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a penny. Note the US Mint put Abe Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. There...

OK the blobs haven't grown bigger, but the population in this S. Leucophylla pitcher is huge. I don't know how or why this happened, but...

April 14, 2019 Spring is here and that means new pitchers are opening. I wanted to see if they caught something on their first day. ...

March 11 2019 A new monster has arrived in my bugbat. I've been seeing the little white blobs in the bottom of my pitchers for months...

Danger slippery By the next day, he was dead. Not sure what killed it so fast, but its not the first time I've seen insects die off fast...

March 21 2019 I have been trying to help the endangered Monarch butterflies by providing them with habitat, milkweed plants. The milkweed...

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...

Jan 12 2019 Just a bunch of ants in the shortest Leucophylla trap (its only 15 inches). There are other prey insects and blobs at the...

March 11 2019 When looking inside a pitcher plant, many strange things are revealed. But it's not just the prey and the animals that eat...

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...

20181220 In a S. Judith Hindle pitcher, a little white blob can be seen crawling across a fly's compound eye. This is one of the creepier...