nectar

Two days ago I noticed several ants hanging around my tray and I got kinda excited because there's been a shortage on flying insects. All my pitchers had nectars dribbling down them and by the time the ants were all captured, all the nectar were gone ^_^. They managed to reach the pots...

This is def common knowledge but I want to share my joy because my friends don't care about Cps ^_^ Bought this Ventrata 2 months ago and it had two plants in one pot. So I divided them into two pots and placed them in two different environment. The first one hangs under my roof near my front...

Carnivorous means that something is a "meat eater". It doesn't mean that something kills the animal, or else pure scavengers would not be considered carnivorous. A vulture is a carnivore simply because it eats meat, not because it may on some occasions kill things. Does that make everything a...

Boom! Who doesn't love pictures? We all love pictures, and this thread is where you'll find a lot of mine! Here's an overview of the current collection. From back to front: 1. S. x readei 2. Darlingtonia californica 3. S. flava v. rugelii x flava v. maxima / D. binata 4. S. minor v...

Too early to really know for sure, but very unique so far. If it maintains this uniqueness, this will be Heliamphora 'Margarita' (Tincher) Very fast growing, covered with a very fine hair, unusual nectar spoon, very bright green even under intense lighting, transition from pitcher rim to spoon...

I've had a lot of boxelder bugs on my sarracenia the past couple weeks. I see some of them eating the nectar at the mouths of the pitchers but others are poking their proboscises around other places on the plants. I thought it was rather odd since I understand they mostly chew on maple trees...

A European paper wasp (Polistes dominula) trying to feed on the tiny droplets of nectar secreted on the underside of the operculum of a yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava). As you can see the wasp had a very precarious hold on the slippery lip of the plant. You can tell that this wasn’t...

Does this happen to any other windowsill growers? I think it's pretty cool.

- Heliamphora huberi - rarely available within USA (especially specimens at or near maturity). Plant Mother plant showing pitcher & nectar spoon detail (probably still not fully mature) Another pic of H. huberi in habitat - Bidding starts @ $2. - Buyer pays shipping - which is estimated...

I spent several days observing and taking close pictures of a new large pitcher opening. I placed diluted orchid fertilizer into a couple of pitchers in each of three plants three weeks ago and this pitcher just exploded in size reaching 1.5 inches so far. The plant itself is the smaller of the...

This plant has been a royal PITA. After I acquired it several years ago, it died back to a single pitcher and root. Together they did not exceed 0.75 inchers. Slowly, and with lots of TLC it has come back to what you see now... One of the more delicate and temperamental clone lines to be...

Hi all, My latest blog is about photographing ants...which are everything that a macro photographer looks for: they are small (pretty much a prerequisite for macro), attractive (some of them at least) and best of all, they do interesting things. The photo below is a western thatching ant...

One rooted division with adult pitchers. A very beautiful, newly described species... Heliamphora ceracea Here are some pics of the mother plant in all her beauty: From AW webpage: "..... A wonderful species! It seems to e the closest relative of the famous Heliamphora macdonaldae...

First example: Pitcher is pubescent on the interior and bright red/orange in color. Goosehead type of nectar spoon. Interior of pitcher is covered with fine hairs Full Size (That powdery area on the left is where I bumped a pollen laden cotton swab against it) Second example: Pitcher is...

Up for auction is a large Heliamphora minor. This was my first Heli & I've really agonized about giving it up but it's a good cause & I need some space. In addition, I'll miss it's nectar spoons - some of which are huge. This plant has completely filled up it's pot & either needs to be divided...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DKoIGK_B5zM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> My Nepenthes Ventrata has suddenly become the center of attention today for a colony of small Ants. They are sucking up the sugar exuded by the nectar glands found on...

I was looking at my plants 5 minutes ago and noticed these small bugs that kind of remind of scale on my heliamphora.. they are much smaller than scale. After looking through all my plant since seeing them, all I found were four small ones.. all on the same heliamphora leaf... maybe I caught it...

The "minor" is mentioned in quotations because while it was sold to me as minor, the morphological characteristics of the nectar spoon beg otherwise--seemingly an introgressed hybrid with H. heterodoxa. You are bidding on a very vigorous and healthy plant---I count perhaps 4 different growth...

The last couple of weeks I have noticed the honey bees are really working my bog pots. They aren't paying any attention to the plants, but are getting "something" from the surface of the media. Some pots have moss, others don't. I can't believe they are just after the moisture, they can get...

I notice Nepenthes campanulata can produce lots of nectar, and the pitcher lid would drool with nectar after a while. The fun thing is, the nectar gets real stringy as the pitchers mature. Ho ho. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OCfpvFEaD34" frameborder="0"...