bugs

I'm trying to get names for these guys. They were given to me last fall and these are the first pitchers since I've had them. He mentioned truncata but I would like to know. Looks like some bug damage on this one but I can't find the bugs.

I noticed the other day that the tip of an immature pitcher on one of my purps had a little kink in it. Upon closer inspection I saw a couple of aphids hiding in it which I removed. I closely inspected the plant, found a few more which I also manually removed. That plant was pretty far along in...

Last month I was in Bangkok, Thailand to attend CITES CoP 16. One free afternoon (my only free afternoon) I took the skytrain out to the Chatuchak (weekend) market—the biggest weekend market in the world. This market is incredible: it is HUGE (according to Wikipedia it covers over 35 acres and...

I have a culture of sphagnum moss and it is about to fill up the container its in so I am planning on trimming it down and taking more cultures of it. I noticed a while back there were tiny and I mine tiny black dots moving around. I believe them to be Oribatid mites. They are tiny black round...

A few weeks ago, all of my drosera started to turn brown on the tips and die back, even the capes. There is one pot of typical capes that is doing fine, but the rest are turning brown... All except the pygmies. On top of this, there are these tiny little white bugs that resemble springtails but...

I have this mirabilis echinostoma and for a lowlander it is fussy. once i finally got the plant back to it's bushy, healthy self i notice that is would only make 1 pitcher at a time and that one pitcher would usually die off fairly quick compared to my other nepenthes which seem to have a...

My N. ampullaria has been pouty for several months now, probably since fall. Some of its pitchers fail to form, while others get a brown discolouration. For some reason, its new pitchers aren't turning a nice green (they just stay a sickly green, and somewhat transparent). Some of the pitchers...

I just noticed one of my drosera adelae has a few little yellow bugs (what seem to be aphids) Sucking the leaves. Could anyone tell me what pesticide will kill them without harming my plants? I have neem, but I read somewhere online that the neem doesnt kill aphids.

First off, if this is in the wrong place i apologize, mods feel free to move it if it is. Well, my aunt gave me an orchid around xmas time, and just today i spotted that it was infested with mealy bugs. The plant is on the same table in the window as all of my CP's, but i spot no bugs on any of...

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There's this cute jumping spider living in the bathroom, but I'm unable to find bugs for it. Could I make it a tofu purée and serve it with a cotton ball? I don't want him to go hungry, but I'm not sure if he'd be able to digest tofu properly.

I'm sure we've all seen some on general gardening sites Just thought I'd post a few of my faves for the fun of it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Here's the question asked "I just received my first Nepenthes Ventrata plant (photo's below) and the pitchers have no fluid in them. What can I do...

So I came home and the sun was hitting the water in my terrarium just right and I could hundreds of these pod looking thing. The were all on top of the water just kind of walking on the water. The looked like a tiny white isopod or rollie pollie ... I am disinfecting my terrarium and have them...

Hello guys and gals! I am from Anchorage Alaska and I'm new to CP's. I have kept a riparium for about a year and now that I built up my planted high tech 40B aquarium to a high tech riparium and now a high tech/high humidity enclosed ecosystem, I am ready to get into CP's! I will try to get a...

Hello everyone....I am a bit troubled by the attack (mealy bugs) but the Bayer Advance Rose and Flower did the job at killing them. My question is do most highlanders bounce back from such an attack? I ask this because some don't look good....the bugs are gone, but the plants don't look good...

Hello, after we stayed for one night in Clanwilliam we wanted to go further north to Niewoudtville. On this way wanted to visit a location in the Cedar Mountains, where we have been in 2009 to see how the Roridula dentata are doing there. For me, the Cedar Mountains are amongst the most...

Some people say that since they eat bugs, they smell horrible. Other people say they smell good(depending on species). Another group of people say they smell good all together. So what is it??? I know that a lot of carnivorous plant flowers don't have a scent, but what is your take on this XD...

And it managed to nab one of the more annoying bugs....I have caught these "daddy long legs" stealing from my cps on many occasions. Seems justice is swift and harsh in the world of carnivorous plants. enjoy:

How do I do sarracenia dormancy in the refrigerator? I don't want to put it outside, because there are a lot of bugs(especially ants and spiders, one of the plants in front of my house got infected with melee bugs) and there are a lot of people who walk their dogs in my neighborhood. Thank you:)

There is this white thing on a the tip of my Nepenthe Sanguinea's leaf. I know that this isn't mealy bugs cause it doesn't move or appear to have a body. I asked a person about what it might be, and they said that it is a thing to protect the new pitchers. This nepenthes is new and I only had it...