What has your sundew snagged?

[Sundrew]

For me, the most fantastic quality about sundews is the way they capture their prey. Whether they curl and tighten around struggling insects or just smother them in dew and tentacles, these plants can be incredibly dramatic. I've seen dedicated sundew picture threads, but I have not come across one for displaying their gruesome captures. So I ask you, fellow 'dew growers, what has your sundew snagged?

I'll start it off with a few pictures of my plants doing what they do best.

My favorite action photo. My D. capensis wrapping around a dangling fly.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7733098052/" title="Drosera capensis snags fly by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8429/7733098052_e39d6eeea4_z.jpg" width="434" height="640" alt="Drosera capensis snags fly"></a>


Drosera capillaris seedling about 2cm in diameter feasting on a fly.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7854749954/" title="Untitled by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8307/7854749954_b051462568_z.jpg" width="640" height="587" alt="Untitled"></a>


Drosera indica snaring an earwig.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7733092960/" title="Drosera indica by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7273/7733092960_ff0828715a_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Drosera indica"></a>


A tremendous fly about to be wrapped up.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7733094036/" title="Drosera capensis catches huge fly by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7247/7733094036_c9541005ea_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Drosera capensis catches huge fly"></a>


Another fly trying to pull away from the dew to no avail.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7733097042/" title="Drosera indica catching fly by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7733097042_ddc9f5f65e_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Drosera indica catching fly"></a>


The twisted corpse of a fly on my D. adelae.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7733556448/" title="Drosera adelae digesting prey by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7115/7733556448_a707922025_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Drosera adelae digesting prey"></a>

 

[Brie]

Cool pics and idea..

 

[Sundrew]

Fantastic pics!

 

[Peatmoss]

Awesome photos both of you!

I don't really give my dews any live food (and the setup is indoors) so all they get is springtails from pots, and fish pellets.

I guess if I interpret the ingredients of the pellets, the biggest thing my dews have caught, is a mackerel...

 

[Brie]

None of mine were given this stuff. Just stuff they cought on their own. I freed the bee and the damselfly after taking the photos. Oddly enough, the bee was INSIDE, and I have screens on all of my windows.. Was one of our small native bees, the size of a big fly.

 

[Sundrew]

My plants capture tons of food by themselves outside, and inside the occasional fly gets stuck by itself. Whenever I see a fly inside, though, I always catch it for my plants. I really hate flies.

 

[MasterPropagator]

I like all of your pictures .
Yours are great also Brie.

I hate all types of bugs and insects so that's why i like CP's =)
Man i need a camera

 

[That One Guy]

Please excuse my reeeally bad photography

D. Capensis 'Alba'

 

[Sundrew]

Nice captures! Love the gnat carnage.

 

[Gigantea]

Nice photos!

Yeah, the gnat one would be what mine usually catch. All my sundews aside from the Binata are small, so I don't think they could catch anything as large as a damselfly or bee. I really don't think the Binata could either, as I have seen ants escape before.

I've tried before to take close ups of the "gnat carnage", but my phone camera doesn't do clear close ups.

 

[Homedawg76]

Not a really great photo but I thought I'd share, seeing as I've never seen a picture of a baby sundew eating before.

It's a 1.5 week old burmannii
The red arrows point to the bugs and the blue one points to the fish food dust particle I gave it awhile ago. I didn't think it would catch insects by itself.

 

[Sundrew]

Cool! Do you know what it is it caught?

 

[Homedawg76]

unfortunately no. Even with my magnifying lens they look like moving black peanuts with antennae. they don't look quite like aphids, or rather any aphids Ive seen before.

 

[Sundrew]

So I was checking up on my outdoor dews today and found these two snags.

My D. rotundifolia finally caught something substantial: a nice moth.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7893567834/" title="Untitled by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8449/7893567834_59aae23ef3_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Untitled"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7895439404/" title="DSC01473 by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8309/7895439404_a63473f839_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="DSC01473"></a>


Sadly, my D. indica caught and killed a large butterfly before I could save it.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7895433960/" title="DSC01484 by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8459/7895433960_48c627a658_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="DSC01484"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7895437208/" title="DSC01480 by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8462/7895437208_8ab23f7198_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="DSC01480"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84442298@N03/7895432870/" title="DSC01486 by Sundrew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8436/7895432870_077d383569_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="DSC01486"></a>

 

[Not a Number]

I posted this before elsewhere. D. scorpioides biting off more than it can chew:

 

[Sundrew]

I love when they do that. D. scorpioides is very strong for its size.