insect

Hey, all- I have recently planted this S. purpurea in my mini-tote-bog. Today, I have noticed several holes in the smaller pitcher of the purpurea. I presume it will be fine, but want to double check. I can't see anything wrong with the other plant in the mini-bog- a S. Judith Hindle. However...

Schmidt Sting and Pain Index I rember some one complaining about Fire ant bites. multiply that by about 20 and im sure you got a bullet ant bite. Cheers

Hi All, I usually post in the freshwater category but I found a fairly reasonably priced copy of Slack's Insect Eating Plants and I have to say it is a wonderful book. I'd recommend it to everyone. The information seems quite good to my inexperienced eyes and I like the photos. What happened...

Hey my house is full of fungus gnats, or some kind of flying insects, was all fine, but today one get in to my glass of soda, thats relly bad, i wont eat a insect, thats the job of my cp, so i wanna change the pot of all of them... is a good idea?, how?, any tip?, last time i do this my plants...

I just did the stupidest thing EVER!!!! The ceph that a fellow terraforumest traded me had these small white crawly rolly polly insect things in the soil so I didnt have any safe insecticides with me and I couldnt go anywhere until tuesday so I repotted it!! I know that the roots are sensitive...

So some sort of chewing insect is circulating among my Sarras and other outdoor plants. I got a bottle of Ortho Systemic Insect Killer (active ingredient Orthene, aka acephate) but I'm a little confused. The bottle says to apply it to all surfaces of the affected plants, which won't be easy for...

hello at first i noticed some of the new pitchers on part of my ventrata (or that's what we're calling it this week) were coming out deformed. i thought this may have to do with the fact that it's a TC plant (my flytraps had some weirdness growing for a while) so i ignored it. then a week or...

Hello everyone! I am currently working of an end of session project, and I decided to write a report about the chemical composition (of traps/relevant structures) and digestion of prey by carnivorous plants. But I need sources for that, does anyone knows where I can gather that sort of...

I have a small (but incredibly fast growing) colony of D. burmannii in a fish bowl terrarium, just chillin' under a single 23 watt compact flourescent bulb, lovin' every second of it. Before I continue, you must understand that the reason I pursued getting this plant into my collection is...

Here is an interesting article from the NY Times Science section about a new book: The Evolution of Insects by Grimaldi and Engels.  I came across this from the amber discussion group that I belong to.  Keep growing as many plants as you can...it'll never be enough...

I saw this article, and it made me wonder.

for your perusal: Beastly beauties: Carnivorous plants lure fans with bright colors, unique shapes BY CANDACE RENALLS Knight Ridder Newspapers Creepy, hungry things grow in Charles Lamb's house. Sticky, hairy plants with pouches and traps lure flies, gnats and spiders to their demise...

I found this article and it even has a qoute from our very own Barry Rice. http://www.thepilot.com/features/110905zootales.html

Gidday, I recenty bought a D. muscipula x paradisia and noticed that it has a few mutant traps: Just wondering if anyone has come across this before (I assume it woudn't be that rare). Also I just triggered the trap with it's inner hairs (on the smaller part of the trap and the whole thing...

I have been seeing some brown, ugly insects, with a funk odor, hanging out. I fed a couple of them to my Neps. Here's an exerpt from an article I read to day about them: The brown marmorated stink bug, a native of Asia, feeds on apples, peaches, and other fruit. TREE fruit growers in Eastern...

Recently my neps expect for the hanging basket got a few aphids on them, nothing serious....yet. But I noticed this about 2 days ago and just ignored it, because i thought it was just some insect. After looking at GIS, I found out that they were aphids, I grow my cps outside, so I found the...

Ok, we probably take them for granted but I think they are one of the coolest critters out there. One of those things that always fascinated me. Perhaps cause they are so common most people don't seem to pay them much notice. If you do some digging their are a few articles on how scientists...