</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (swords @ Nov. 19 2002,8:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Neat! Good shots!
I'm curous, did you notice if nectar production on the peristome increased as the plants ate?[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I didn't notice any increased nectar production. Also, if there were any increase, it would have been cancelled out by the decrease in humidity as they were moved from their terrarium to the less humid bathroom.
I fed 6 neps (sanguinea, ventricosa x2, j. finn, rafflesiana x2), each with 5 to 8 pitchers all eventually full of ants, and that probably didn't even account for 1% of all ants that were swarming my bathroom. Their numbers are staggering. I ended up vacuuming up like a zillion ants.
Incidentally, the ants came back for vengeance later on, appearing on my balcony and farming scales and some other wierd pests (little white things) on my 3 VFTs. And strangely, my VFT's don't close on the ants - perhaps the ants are too small. But many of them ended up meeting their doom inside my S. Purpurea. The cycle of life unfolding before my very eyes in the comfort of my own apartment...
nepenthes plant... $8.95
gallon of distilled water... $1.29
30 gallon terrarium... $25.99
the joy of being a CP grower... PRICELESS