Having gotten sort of settled back in Ohio after moving from New Jersey last week my plants had been in the dark for 10 days.  This has been terrible on my figs that had broken dormancy indoors under lights in December.  Apparently during that time a whole lot of fungal gnats hatched.  Now that the lights are back up and resin production is back online the war is on!

As always, Drosera Capensis is my champion of devouring the most bugs:


But, the Sarracenias don't play around either:


All of the Heliamphora pitchers have bugs but they were hard to photograph.  You can kind of see some spread out wings in this one:


As far as the Cephalotuses I can never really see how they are eating, but this Hummer's Giant has recently produced this incredibly large pitcher to really live up to it's name:


Flytraps, always good to go 1 for 1 pitchers:bugs in a battle like this.  Reliable, but pales in comparison to the Sarracenias and Droseras:


This newly acquired Pinguicula red leaf is just beginning to pick up it's red coloring but couldn't resist getting in on the action:


As an added bonus while installing the new bulb in the HPS lamp I found these toasted treats that we'll save for the next feeding:

Greg, your plants are beautiful.  As I mentioned above I got my sundew about a month ago and it is quite small.  Yesterday I caught a couple gnats at my outdoor compost pile and carefully placed the dead gnats directly on the sundew leaves.  Nothing has happened.  However, I see no resin bulbs so presumably that is the problem.  What triggers the sundew to get resin bulbs?  I really wish this would happen soon because I am starting to seen an occasional gnat around my cupped fig cuttings.  Thanks!

Rewton,

Thanks!  

Drosera will not digest any bugs until they produce resin.  My Capensis produces resin after 3 continuous days of bright light and 80%+ humidity.  I have Drosera aliciae in the same environment box however that absolutely refuses to produce resin.

Greg, I spoke with Ron West at Cascade Carnivores and he also recommended increasing the light and the humidity.  So I put a transparent plastic cup with holes over the sundew (Drosera aliciae) pot as a make-shift humidity dome and moved it do a south facing window.  I also increased the water for my butterwort based on his advice so we'll see if that helps.

'Hummer's Giant' Cephalotus first giant pitcher opened up in the last few days.  It's the size of my thumb!

All of the teeth have their mature purple hue now:


'eden black' Cephalotus coming along but not so dark yet under my bright lights.  I wish I had an outdoor greenhouse and proper weather to get these really dark.


This pathetic little green thread is the first 'eden black' Cephalotus ever grown on American soil!


Here's the P. florian from January coming along really nicely:


P. agnata also from January is growing in that red hue very nicely too.  This one gets way more insect action than any of my other butterworts: