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Dragonfly on Drosera Filiformis

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

Monarch Butterflies

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

Strange things on the Red Dragon Flower

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

The ants are up to something

Not sure what they are up to, but they are definitely up to something. I spotted a bunch of ants burying something in my newer...

There's a Spider on my Ant

There is an ant living on my giANT. Not sure what he is, but he looks comfortable there so I am going to leave him be.

Ant Colony vs the Bug Vacuum

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...

Laser Spider in S. Bugbat

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...

There's a spider eating my Bugbat's ants

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

Ant Ladder in the Giant Bugbat Pitcher

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

Golden Spider on Leucophylla

Feb 3 2019 Spotted a spider with it's recently captured prey on one of the Leucophylla pitchers. The prey is still twitching. Yes I'...

Blobs to Scale

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...

HUGE Blobs in S. Leucophylla

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...

That Orange Flower That's Everywhere

The orange flower that's photobombing every pitcher plant is the Orange Milkwort - Polygala lutea. Petflytrap sells this as a companion...

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