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Fish and turtles up for trade! Be sure to check out my extensive want/trade list at the bottom. Feel free to make offers, ask questions. Thanks! Two male Red Eared Sliders, they are yearlings at about 4". Take them separate or together. Turtle 1: Beautiful "sunset orange" markings. Turtle...

Hi all, I've got a Sarr issue that I've not had before. My S. minor keeps putting out nice pitchers and then they develop a brown ring near the base. The brown ring expands upwards until the whole pitcher is brown. What does this indicate? I kind of thought maybe there was some sort of insect...

My Sarracenia Alata flower has been open for several days, but I haven't seen a single insect come near it. Does anybody know what type of insects pollinate them or what time of day I should be looking for them? I'm hoping to get a picture. Today's weather is partly cloudy with temperatures...

Last year I used to culture d. hydei for my cp's but the job was very tedious and eventually a native fruit fly contaminated my culture. However the results I had were very good and I want to continue to feed my plants and pick up where I left off but with a larger insect. Eventually I came...

I swear I saw a recipe thread, but now I can't seem to find it. Without much more ado, share your great recipes. I've seen several in the last couple days in the chat that others might like to try. Ready, set, saute! ETA: SOMEbody wouldn't let me post this without a starter recipe. Okey...

I thought it would be fun to try to find some of the oldest carnivorous plant cultivars out there. The ICPS has a cultivar list with dates, so I thought I'd find some of the older ones and post them here. It would be neat to see if any of them are still around and if they aren't try to find the...

I don't know if anyone's seen my intro post but I am a professional research horticulturist in a major university's plant biology department. I manage 2 4,500 sqft greenhouses full of crop plants like corn, sunflowers, rice, millet, and anything else the researchers are interested in. I also...

So for those of you that I have not told already... This past Friday I was invited by a professor at UNC-Charlotte to come work on some research projects with him as a graduate school student. The goals of the project are 1) understanding natural genetic variation (including hybridization and...

Hi all I know there's 7,500 species within the Coccoidea group however is there a common few that tend to take a liking to VFT... Your comments please. Noddy

I came across this one today in a container of typical VFT recovering from division of a large clump and thought it was pretty cool. I could not resist seeing if it was functional, so tripped the hairs on one of the traps and to my surprise both traps closed. Each trap has trigger hairs on both...

hi. ive been growing a sundew for a couple months and ive got a question. every time my sundew catches an insect after a few days that tentacle turns brown and dies. i feel like my insects are poisonous. also im wondering if i should removes the dead tentacles or let them be. thanks

This past winter I bought a Nikkor 50mm F2.8 enlarger lens off eBay for a whole $20.00. This lens has a reputation as a good sharp macro lens when reversed on a bellows. So using a couple of $2.00 adaptors (also off eBay) I tried mounting the lens (reversed) on a vintage OM telescopic auto...

Last weekend I sat down and built a flash diffuser using foamcore, white paper and white duct tape. I wanted something that would be super quick to set-up with the flash mounted directly onto the camera hotshoe (I am a big believer in the KISS principle). The working distance for my 35mm macro...

Today, i saw 1 red insect with 6 legs crawling at the bottom side of my nepenthes leaves. It is about 1.5 mm in size.what pest is that? How do i get rid of it??

So I am looking to set up a greenhouse in the backyard. Im in florida and the area I will be working with receives full sun just about the entire day. Im planning on using a 60% blue shade cloth and using just insect netting on the sides to keep out pests and the demon squirrels. I plan on...

My only Nepenthes that I have is Nepenthes Linda and the plant is hungry for insects . Every day it gets tons of insects , most of them being house flies. In 1 of the pitchers I see that the fly has mold on it and that quite worries me. My question is : What can cause this? Should I empty the...

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...

http://reviews.ebay.com/Selling-your-plants-on-Ebay?ugid=10000000001404806 Most people are totally unaware that to ship , sell move or cause to be moved, any plant material, live or dead wet or dry, a Nursery license is required by all States and Federal law. The individual states ALL require...

I'm taking the General Entomology class at my school and we have to have a bug collection and it's worth about 30% of our final grade. The requirements are to have a minimum of 10 orders, 35 families, and 45 ecological categories. Ecological categories are things like Leaf Chewing, Plant...

Is this Scrophulariaceae species practicing carnivory? Is this Linderniaceae species practicing carnivory? Allen Lowrie and I have been working on breeding a large selection plant species, many of which do not always relate directly to this CP forum but if you grow carnivorous plants the...