caterpillar

Dont know how common a problem it is for most folks. It is an infrequent occurrence for me -- I suspect as a result of my having the plants out on a third floor balcony. But today I discovered a capensis munching caterpillar. It had silked together a cluster of petioles -- presumably so it...

Ok, I have about a million caterpillars around my property and the sarracenia aren't up yet..... Has anyone ever frozen caterpillar for later use? Thawed of course.

Jumping spiders are the most adorable things on 8 legs. i surprised this guy in the middle of a meal. Kinda interesting to see which parts of the caterpillar are liquified, and which are not. image by Jerabudragoness, on Flickr image by Jerabudragoness, on Flickr Spider sausage by...

Eeeek there be holes and missing bits on the tomato plants. Well to be honest the plants can spare the extra foliage at this time of year. Here are the culprits. Lacanobia oleracea, the Bright-line Brown-eye moth caterpillar. Also known to gardeners as the Tomato Moth, I can't work out why...

Same one that has the caterpillar issue, starting a few weeks ago it divided into maybe four or five plants. All the pitchers it produces are small, and the ones that look like they would grow to full size are bent sort of like candy canes. This is a picture of it a week and a half ago, in the...

Three days ago the plant in the pic had an almost 2" spike full of fat little buds getting ready to do their thing. That evening I found a caterpillar on the plant, and a single uneaten bud. Here it is:

Well, I started noticing black dots on my plant a few days ago. Now I realize it's bug poo... I think. Then this morning one of my leaf looked really efed up, so I started taking a closer look. BAM, found his little sucker. He also ate some of my baby pitchers and leaf.... :( Sooooo, is it...

I found this Tobacco / Tomato Hornworm on my deck this morning, passed out like a Greco-Roman after a night of hedonistic feasting and orgies. The surprising thing was WHAT he had been eating; Habanero peppers. O.O I ain't mad. I have more peppers than I know what to do with. Kinda wish...

I took these pictures of a boreal jumping spider (Phidippus borealis) feeding on a western tent caterpillar (Malacosoma californicum) last June. I spotted the spider just after it had caught the caterpillar and was dragging it across the leaf of one of the banana plants in my garden. It’s always...

Okay, I have two S. flava v ornatas from two different locals. One grows slowly, and produces only one, hugh, flower a year. The other divides rapidly and puts out multiple flowers, but is not as striking. I have tried for two seasons to cross them. The first year I put pollen from the...

I posted more photos of tobacco hornworms on my blog today...the third post in a row about these critters...I definitely need to find something different to shoot! LOL! Today’s blog was about using a white box to get photos that have a natural background rather than pure white. Here are two...

Thought I was familiar with bugs but I'm seeing this for the first time. It was curled up in soil in an unplanted pot. Looks kinda like a pillbug but it's big, soft and squishy; just like a caterpillar. Burrows very fast. Any ideas ?

At the moment i am feeling extremly ANGRY towards a certain Eastern Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar. in one of my barrel bogs i have been growing some Sarracenia flava v, ornata. I have nurtured these plants for three years hoping to finally obtain some seed this year to distribute to other...

Hey! So, I'm just recovering from a year-long, near catastrophic bout with pests of various sorts, from that Hawaiin white scale to thrips to munching caterpillar things, and so on. I attribute it to the long-term use of fertilizers with indoor tray-based growing and hand watering, but that's...

Hey everyone. I was able to finally grow Ibicella this season. I have tried growing it since 2009, but never got established plants (most likely due to using old seed leading to very low germination rates). Although I got plants to grow, set fruit, and produce seed this year, I was not as...

Found this caterpillar munching on my Sarracenia yesterday evening. So I took a few pics to try and identify it, then I noticed the pictures were turning out pretty nice - it was dusk and the flash was going off, so I snapped a few more while I was out there. Oh, and I never got a 100%...

TF members, Some pics of my vft's doing great receiving direct sunlight for their first time, some of them are used to it, others get filtered sun while the last clouds of winter leaves, a few more weeks and they should be ready to go outside to enjoy the full perfect sun that makes our plants...

So, it's overcast... but stuff is finally growing, so I took some *slightly* blurry shots :p Nepenthes hamata red hairy clone is actually quite a quick grower for me Nepenthes tentaculata too - though that basal is really struggling to get out from under its mommy :p (Nepenthes veitchii...

Check out this monster I picked up at the local orchid shop today Myrmercodia echinata No way man, it's just not gonna fit! Look at that multiheaded caudex Now here's the blooms which emerge from these leperous lesions which form along the stem! :D Upclose. The blooms are four...

I picked these up today at the UNCC plant sale for six bucks each - a VFT and a nice little capensis: I'm a newb, but this is the darkest red I've ever seen on a VFT in person. It's dark like fresh, raw, bloody liver. Mmmm, digested bug bits. I dropped a caterpillar into...