lightbulb at night to attract insects

[cp-connection]

Has anyone tried hanging an incandescent light over their plants at night? I can't foresee any pitfalls except moths laying eggs on my sarracenia. If no one has tried this maybe I should take one for the team. Carnivorous plant team.

 

[billylh]

I get lots of moths around my plants at night due to the porch lights. Tons of them infact, at the same time i notice the increase in pitchers being eaten when developing...personally i think its a bad combination...

~billy

 

[cp-connection]

Oh snap, I am not going to take one for the team.

 

[kulamauiman]

bug zapper them and toast them in the oven like Joseph Clemens described. Then grind up and feed powder to plants.

MTF

 

[joossa]

I use my fog light in my back yard at night every so often during summer and fall. I do it to attack mantids other bugs to take pictures of... not so my plants can eat. They manage to do what they do by themselves... attract, catch, and digest bugs.

 

[D_muscipula]

bug zapper them and toast them in the oven like Joseph Clemens described. Then grind up and feed powder to plants.

MTF

Might not be such a bad idea. I lent my neighbor my bug zapper and he had to sweep his porch step in the morning. That was a few years back, before I grew cp's.