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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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

Sept. 2019 Sept 8 I added a locust into one of the larger S. Bugbat pitchers. The big pitcher deserves big food. I also wanted to get...

Alas, my spider has died. I didn't see it in it's usual hangouts. This isn't the first time, it's gone missing. Sometimes it lurks...

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...

I went to check on my resident spider in my S. Bugbat and found a frog instead! I spotted 2 frogs on the outside of one of the bugbat...

A small dragonfly got caught on the Drosera Filiformis. Check out those eyes! The large D Filiformis is between the S Judith Hindle and...

I had to move the big planter with the carnivorous plants and the next thing I know, I'm overwhelmed by ants. The ants built their...

This is a follow up about the spider inside the S Bugbat. Its been living in there all summer. It's been living the good life by spider...

The bugbat, after a slow start (something ate the first pitchers as they started growing) has been producing giant pitchers. The smallest...

The bugbat, after a slow start (something ate the first pitchers as they started growing) has been producing giant pitchers. The smallest...

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...