Nepenthes under blacklights

[Heli]

I recently read an article about nepenthes pitchers glowing under UV light, which could be another method of trapping. I have a spare UVB bulb so I thought I would try it out and the effects were incredible, honestly these crappy photos do not do it justice. If you have a UV light I highly suggest you try this.

N. robcantleyi in normal light

in UVB spectrum

glandulifera x boschiana

Nepenthes eymae x steno x lowii x tm looked awesome

 

[cody]

cool

 

[mylesG]

just keep that uv light away from luca's sheets

 

[Heli]

or your mother

 

[mylesG]

mother jokes are not cool, esp since i cant make fun of yours. i draw the line at 400 pounds

 

[richjam1986]

I doubted, but it's awesome to see that it works! Time for me to get a black light

 

[Heli]

mother jokes are not cool, esp since i cant make fun of yours. i draw the line at 400 pounds

Well shucks, looks like I can't do that either since your mother is way above that limit

@richjam, I highly suggest you try it.

 

[fuzzy]

LOL your plants tag glow much more brighter...

 

[kwende]

Mine:


glow by Benjamin D. Rush, on Flickr

 

[Sundrew]

It's interesting that the nectar glows too. Great pic.

 

[Wire Man]

I think Ben has captured the best image of this so far.

 

[BioZest]

Mine:


glow by Benjamin D. Rush, on Flickr

This is probably the coolest image of cps I've seen. EVER!
Amazing photo!

 

[kwende]

Thanks. The original is on my flickr feed. It's bigger and higher resolution. Just click the image and you'll jump to my flickr page.

 

[kwende]

Wire man - I'm seriously hoping you get some of the pictures done you and I had talked about last night. I'm so very anxious to see them.

 

[Heli]

I got a better shot
Before

After

You can see that it isn't just reflecting from the peristome because it's the same color as the body.

 

[dionae]

N. robcantleyi

N. truncata(lowland)

 

[Sundrew]

This is so cool. Anyone know if other genuses glow too?

 

[Tuuagso]

It's funny to see how this was never done before, and now we realize we could have posted better pictures than the ones published all along...

 

[corners]

would be cool if our jungles lit up like Avatar

 

[kwende]

Venus flytraps glow too. My aquatic utrics glow, but that might be chlorophyll suspended in the water. My dews do not. I don't have any pings at the moment.

All of my neps glow.