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...

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

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...

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

March 2020 It’s spring and all of the pitcher plants are in bloom. I have over a dozen in bloom or near bloom. A few flower pictures...

Check out the compound eyes on this trilobite I got at the rock show. I asked to see the smallest and coolest thing in stock and this...

Amber frequently preserves the remains of small soft bodied animals like insects and spiders. Some amber preserves large insects, like...

Nov 2019 Had a great time at the HGMS show at Humble TX. There were more cool rocks and fossils than I can show here. I was there to...

Livescience lists the 9 best blobs of the year. Unfortunately, the blobs living inside pitcher plants were snubbed this year. They're...

Oct 9 2019 The ants are up to something, again. I got a couple of drosera capensis earlier in the summer and they promptly were baked in...

I got some Burmese amber off ebay recently. It wasn't for a specific fossil, just a couple of random pieces of amber. I didn't have...

The Humble rock show is coming soon! Houston Gem and Mineral Society fossil show Humble Civic Center November 8–10, 2019 Friday 9-6 |...

On this day Sept 17, 1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes “animalcules“ in a letter to The Royal Society. According to Why Evolution...

The cocoons opened about a week later. I spooked several monarchs before I could film them on Friday. Had less luck on Saturday. One...

I've been growing milkweed to provide habitat for the Monarch Butterfly. Had some success in June with 5 butterflies grown. This is a...

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