Bought a handful of butterworts, fly traps and sundews recently after reading about them from one of our trusted members here.  Here is a picture of the pinguicula after one week, came out with a flower, and its sticky stems were covered with fruit flies that hover around my office plants  She was parked next to the row of Latarolla cuttings....

jack, for pings, check out these guys. i see lot of good looking ones there. http://www.cascadecarnivores.com . i like one showing on following link. http://www.cascadecarnivores.com/popup_image.php?pID=149 . yupe. out of stock like the rest of things i like.

I've always been partial to the Sarracenia and  Darlingtonia. I had a carnivorous terrarium in college with Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, sundews (Drosera) and Venus Flytraps.

I had a big problem with fungus gnats and bought 2 carnivorous plants, a drosera spiralis and a alata-oreo (sarracenia alata x oroephila). Well the spiralis is working so well that it has become  a living graveyard for the gnats. my question is,,,, how do you clean off the dead ones without removing all the sticky product?

The insect debris breaks down eventually.  ( Such a clinical way of saying it!)

don't know much at all about CP. greg might chime in with info on what you need to do with dead leaves. what i'm reading is, it's should be fine to just leave them alone. but i would think with all the dead leaves and undigested husk of the insects, it will be a breeding ground of mold and rot..

Depends on the type of plant, some will absorb the debris, others will feed then the leaf will wither, and sometimes the stuff can rot. I assume careful removal with tweezers to avoid rot if they do not decay and not rot.

Don't know anything about them but I took a blind shot and ordered from the website Pete provided.

They are;
http://www.cascadecarnivores.com/product_info.php?products_id=110

http://www.cascadecarnivores.com/product_info.php?products_id=165

http://www.cascadecarnivores.com/product_info.php?products_id=67

Hope they teach those gnats a lesson.

rafed, me neither. don't know anything about them, but they look beautiful. specially the flowers. eat fig, drink beer, and look at CP (carnivorous plants). i think i'm set. and i have two puppies to warm my feet.

Its pretty cool having them aroung my fig cuttings, the butterworts are covered with knats after just one week

Ron West at Cascadecarnivores is a good guy.  I highly recommend his plants--especially his pings.  

So far as the insect husks just let them ride.  Once their nutritional soup has been reabsorbed by the plants they will drop the husks.  Typically you'll get a white mold film over the insects during digestion; don't sweat it.  These plants have developed in nature side by side with these organisms and have a beneficial symbiotic relationship.  

I trim off dead leaves sometimes with sharp sterile clippers because I don't want to look at them, but the naturalist school of thought has some merit on the topic of dead leaves.  Most plants store nutrients in their leaves and when they drain that store the leaf will die off and the plant will drop them when its ready.  It is fair to say the plant knows better than we do when it does and does not get value from it's leaves.  I suspect there is some degree of virtue around this.  Any time you cut on your plants there is some degree of stress.  Just steer clear of the crown.