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Things my plants ate..

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I always like seeing exactly what my plants had caught. Hopefully more people chime in too. This week? Nice shiny beetle!


(ventrinermis pitcher)
 
A spider
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This one is from last fall, when I cut down my Leuco pitchers for winter. Decided to have a peek inside. Some things were still alive - like the earwig:
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ventrinermis again - junebug


glabrata - mayflies, some tiny gnat-like fly, and something bee-like




..and can I add things I've found hanging out on my plants?
platychila blooms & a honeybee


inermis & a fly
 
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A spider

This one is from last fall, when I cut down my Leuco pitchers for winter. Decided to have a peek inside. Some things were still alive - like the earwig:

That's because earwigs are robots or something. I used to find them under my bed for some strange creepy reason growing up, and once I put one in rubbing alcohol in a sealed jar on a window for a week in the sun. It was still alive after that week.
 
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Lunch was not a good time to view this thread. :lol:
 
more!

ventrinermis again - junebug


glabrata - mayflies, some tiny gnat-like fly, and something bee-like




..and can I add things I've found hanging out on my plants?
platychila blooms & a honeybee


inermis & a fly
Dunno. Don't think mayflies. Maybe a large lacewing or other neoropteran. Key characteristics for May flies were hind wings small we than fore wings. Both look about the same.
 
Dunno. Don't think mayflies. Maybe a large lacewing or other neoropteran. Key characteristics for May flies were hind wings small we than fore wings. Both look about the same.

Thanks! :hail:
 
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Those are definitely lacewings. Usually very beneficial as they eat aphids, and their wings are a whole lot bigger than mayflies.
 
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