Dec 25 2018 The ants are still active in bugbat. They are running around on a larger flying insect 20181225_103945.mp4

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...

Nov 7 2018 While the bugbat has it's ant ladder, the S. Leucophylla have been trapping bigger prey. It has 3 2 ft pitchers and a few...

Dec 18 2018 I was happy to see that one of the bugbat has trapped a mosquito. The less mosquitos the better. But alas, it is not a...

Dec 25 2018 It's always a surprise to look inside a pitcher plant and see a giant roach looking back at you. One of the S. Leucophylla...

Feb 13 2019 The Leucophylla has captured a ladybug. It desperately tries to escape, but is trapped at the Hooker Zone 2-3 boundary. The...

Dec 17 2018 The giant roach in the bugbat wins for the largest bug my traps have caught. It seems worthwhile to see what’s happening in...

20181213 Dec 13 2018 Everything is bigger in Texas and that refers to our roaches, too. They can be nearly 2 inches long. So I heard an...

20181212 I’m not a big fan of flies, but i can’t help but feel sorry for this poor little guy. One minute he’s drinking some plant...

Nov 9 2018 The plan was to record all the way to the bottom of a Bugbat pitcher. Through the ants in Zone 2 and 3 and into the digestive...

20181030 We're having an ant ball! Not a formal ant party, but another example of the ants working together like the ant ladder. In...

Nov 7 2018 Meanwhile in the Judith Hindle, a few ants are trapped in Zone 3 whist the little white blobs are eating those who've already...

Nov 7 2018 The ants are still in ladder formation after a week since my first observation. I assume its the same ants or possibly the...

The Teslong MS100 Pencam has 8 LED lights around the camera. That's very handy, but sometimes its reflection gets shows up in pictures...

Meanwhile in a different Judith Hindle leaf (but the same plant). This takes place Nov. 2018. (Further north, Sarracenia are hibernating...

A few ants and a fly trapped in a Judith Hindle. It looks like the ants are fighting the little white blobs (mites?). I can's see for...

20181101 Nov 1 2018 The Ants build a ladder to escape the Bugbat An army of ants has been growing in this Bugbat pitcher. Today they got...

20181029 Maybe it's because it's nearly Halloween, but i saw a monster today. In a Leucophylla. Expecting to see an army of ants, a...

There was a major ant party going on in my second leucophylla pitcher on Sept 19 2018. I leave it to you to guess how many ants are...