Things my plants ate..

[thez_yo]

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


(ventrinermis pitcher)

 

[Zath]

Meal Silhouette by the_bugman_cometh, on Flickr

A moth.

 

[mato]

Bee

N. flava by Aspidistra Flier, on Flickr

 

[Dragoness]

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:

 

[thez_yo]

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

 

[thez_yo]

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.

 

[fdfederation]

Lunch was not a good time to view this thread.

 

[kulamauiman]

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.

 

[thez_yo]

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!

 

[hcarlton]

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

 

[Plant Planter]

A spider

Same thing always happens when my flytraps catch a spider.

 

[jimscott]