Pictures of your Drosera eating things

[Tacks]

I hope they are delicious for your 'dew.

 

[Kevin P]

Old(er) pic, from November '13. Picked up a fruit fly culture while it was still warm enough to ship them here, and my D. capensis "red" went mad.

 

[Acro]

Eggs hatched.

Did they all get caught by the sundew or did any escape?

 

[Not a Number]

I'm sure the majority of them escaped. Carnivorous plants aren't all that efficient at trapping prey.

 

[Kevin P]

Young D. burmannii (Hann River, Kimberley, Western Australia)

 

[PsychoSarah]

I know it is blurry, but notice the giant fly this little, slightly mutated (two leaves merged together) leaf managed to catch last night.

 

[Tacks]

My D. burmannii Humpty Doo caught a little flying thing.



It is now doing what it does best – going to town on some food.

 

[Tanukimo]

Beautiful! If only it was as red as it was before.

 

[Radagast]

Here's a "before and after" of my Drosera tokaiensis. Time span of several hours.

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[KKPsi08]

My D. Filiformis Tracyii caught a crane fly this morning

 

[Kevin P]

Springtail has sprung its last...

 

[Not a Number]

D. regia seems to be a magnet for crane flies. 3rd and 4th or so this season.

 

[Cindy]

 

[Dexenthes]

My little D. regia had it's first nice trap leaf so . . . I may have helped it out a little but it doesn't make it any less gruesome. The cranefly was already caught by its legs, but it would just be such a waste to have it die any not have the plant get a meal out of it, so I may have pressed its body against the leaf.

 

[ps3isawesome]

Well, this poor fly is ruined

 

[Dexenthes]

Wow you can pretty much visibly see all the nutrients it got from that meal!

 

[BaseDrifter]

Ohh, nice thread. I've got a couple contributions.

 

[Not a Number]

If you can have a "Man eating tiger" then you can have things that eat Drosera:

 

[pappydew]

TBT...throwback Tuesday, back when I had dews and they all fit in a 10 gallon aquarium. D. binata caught a cranefly indoors!

 

[gnathaniel]

Great thread! Hope to have something to add in the next couple of months. Your aphid pic is creeping me out, Not a Number, now I keep thinking about going around to hand-inspect every one of my plants for the little b______s...