Carnivorous plants...

[Kap142]

OK, OK, OK so you buy little slippers for the lizards..................

[85vette]

I wonder if a regular fly strip would work? Maybe you could ask for human flavored?!

[Rich Z]

Well, the mosquito magnets are definitely doing a number on the yellow flies. But damn there must be a LOT of them out there....

[Rich Z]

The venus fly traps and sundews I bought a while back seem to be doing real well in the mini bogs we set up, so I decided to buy a few more.

These potted venus fly traps are right colorful, pretty nice sized, and look in excellent shape.











The sundews don't look to shabby neither.

[Rich Z]

I also bought some bare root fly traps that are smaller, but they should do OK in the little pots I set them up in.





I'm letting them all gradually get acclimated to the sunlight before putting them out in the mini bogs. Don't want to burn them like I did that first batch I got.

[Rich Z]

Well, the mini bogs appear to be coming back nicely this spring. I lost some things because I didn't have the drain holes deep enough to account for the amount of settling the soil would do. So I drilled a few more somewhat deeper, and the soil isn't as mushy as it was before. Also had some varmint root around in one of the bogs and scattered a bunch of the flytraps here and yonder. Perhaps he even ate some of them.

One of the mini bogs has sprouted a whole slew of little yellow flowers on string thin stalks.



Anyway, I took a bunch of photos of the flytraps and sundews....

[Rich Z]

more....

[Rich Z]

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[Rich Z]

Had the camera in hand when I walked past the mini bogs with the venus fly traps in them, so.......















Looks like several of them are going to flower this year. The sundews are going berserk producing flower stalks.