insect

Hi All, I have a number of Chinese Mantid ooths in the greenhouse. I am auctioning off 6 nymphs, assuming any of the ooths hatch. So, when bidding, please bare in mind there is a risk that nothing will hatch (which will irritate me vastly, so you won't be alone). The bidder is assuming this...

Hi! I recently fed some black ants to my droseras and i was surprised that most species (peltata, pygmies, rotundifolia, anglica, burkeana, etc...) suffered harm to their leaves and they died (of course ants escaped). Here is an example of d. anglica (note the dead new leaf): Now is it the...

Two leaf pullings of the rare and unusual D. muscipula‘Amigurumi’ PlantAKiss $24, pd. Looking to get in on the newest Venus Flytrap Cultivar available to the public? Besides the one and only available mature adult specimen of Dionaea muscipula ‘Amigurumi’ which is exclusively offered through...

This White-Lined Sphinx Moth flew into our kitchen tonight and promptly landed on my head. It was rather calm and didn't mind me taking a few shots of it and even putting it in a dangerous position or two. Check out the pink spots when it flutters its wings! In my little brother's...

Tired of trying and failing to keep venus flytraps growing under lights year-round? Sick of dormancy and want to keep your little monsters out even in December? May I suggest this new and only specimen of this cultivar, Dionaea muscipula ‘Amigurumi’. This will be shipped bare-root (not potted...

This is a spanking-new copy of Adrian Slack’s Insect Eaters: How to Grow and Feed Extraordinary Plants, a recent reissue of his long-out-of-print 1986 classic, Insect-Eating Plants and How to Grow Them, a title which still fetches over a hundred clams or more among collectors -- and has...

I found this article while surfing, and I found it fascinating and I think you will too. This is a plant we don't hear much about. The article itself has pictures of both the plant and its bug. http://www.kew.org/msbp/plantstories/Roridula_dentata.htm

I have a bottle of "Schults Houseplant and Garden Insect Spray". Active Ingredients are: Pyrethrin... 0.02% * Piperonyl Butoxide, Technical... 0.20% "Other Ingredients"... 98.78% Has a huge wall of warnings but says it's safe for vegetables. I have an annoying set of little white/brown bugs...

all these I grow under artificial lights year around (with one hour of morning sun):\ D. burmanii D. paradoxa D.affinis D.sessifolia seedling (1month old) D.dielsiana D.graomogolensis (I have such a problem- every leaf catches insect and then it dont look good with all the leaves used...

Spring has finally arrived and one tray of Dionaea mucipula cv. B52 is finally showing some early progress in the last few weeks. In February, they were actually submerged for time with the rain, here in Northern California. It certainly bodes well for Summer and Fall when the traps reach their...

i would like to start by saying i found this on www.thegardenhelper.com . this is not my work, it is that of the person who posted this on the site mentionned above. I thought it is EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE and makes defining easy by using plain old english, and not technical terms! Please, ENJOY...

hello..i'm new here and from singapore..hope to learn more about insect eating plants and maybe find something i most wanted here..a cephalotus!!they're sooo cute..aren't they?:-D

Hello everyone, I am thinking of getting a new pet (reptile or insect of sorts) but can't decide on one. Any ideas? Also, due to living circumstances, I would only be able to interact with the pet one week out of two (which a couple days during the off-week to feed and pass by). thanks...

I was going through my bookmarks tonight and found a nice one I labeled as "insect photo reference". http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz It's a great set of galleries (mostly rare mantids, stick / leaf insects, stag beetles and arachnids) but also a nice photo tour of Irian Jaya. Hundreds of...

Hey, if you were an insect or something similarly small what kind of plant would you want to get eaten by. Think about the slow death by sundew, or the shock of getting snapped up by a flytrap. So, how will you go?

I was browsing the web and found this great piece on insect camouflage. Some of it is hard to believe!! http://conservationreport.com/2008/11/08/can-you-see-me-animal-camouflage-leaf-mimics/ Capslock

Ok, Familiar stuff first: My minibog shows excellent progress. :) From late spring or early summer: Now: Now, for the new stuff: An outdoors growrack. N. ventricosa - it's showing some sunburn in certain areas. Sarracenia seedlings, plastic bag removed: N...

Here are a few macro shots of an unfortunate and hungry housefly who happened upon an equally hungry Heliamphora heterodoxa x minor. The insect landed, fed at the nectar spoon (long enough for me to go and grab a camera, well in excess of five minutes), staggered, and fell backwards into the...

Hi Peeps, We have a thread on the local gardening forum debating what actually is the insect living in peat moss. It is not a mealy bug and smaller than the whitefly. Some think it is a fungus gnat. It is only about 1/10" in size. I see lots of them in my seed boxes where I sow my Nepenthes...

I came upon a thread recently that was started by Mr. Aga a while ago. He photographed a fish that he fed to his truncata. There were people that were upset by this. There were also people that supported him. The thread was insanely long, there were 109 replies. So, for those growers that joined...