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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 12:53:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 13:20:36 GMT -5
Yummy!tacos anyone??mother nature is an amazing lady.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 14:40:52 GMT -5
My observation is a shrew or rodent made those holes. That in an effort to steal the contents. Seems like they were successful!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 14:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:03:06 GMT -5
My observation is a shrew or rodent made those holes. That in an effort to steal the contents. Seems like they were successful! I am suspicious of carpenter bees. The holes are often perfectly round and i find dead bumblebees/carpenter bees ?? in them regularly. I am a carpenter bee rich farm, we see who can hit them furthest from a line in my wood barn w/badminton rackets. Those pitchers were over 2 feet tall and hole was drilled about 6 inches above the dead bug level, 18 inches(ave) above ground level. Never found a pitcher torn open, but have worried that coons would get in there and tear them up. Never have visits from possums or coons, doors wide open which has always perplexed me since they eat stinky crap. |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:04:09 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:06:03 GMT -5
Scott gets caught using the Miss's stuff a lot I bet.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 12, 2014 15:06:38 GMT -5
Funny how guys like to do that, huh?
My sarracenias - oops, sarracenia (only one left) is anorexic. No pitchers for eating bugs. Maybe that's a good thing, as I do not have 1/1000th of that amount of bugs here for them to eat. I wonder how big of a dent they put in your bug population, James?
I do still have the darlingtonia on my kitchen counter, I haven't seen many fruit flies around (keeping fingers crossed).
The stalk for the flower has browned, and the old flower head will probably be dropping off before seeds are ready. C'est la vie... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 15:17:01 GMT -5
Scott gets caught using the Miss's stuff a lot I bet. Actually, no. Once was enuf... hahahaha!! |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:17:45 GMT -5
Funny how guys like to do that, huh?
My sarracenias - oops, sarracenia (only one left) is anorexic. No pitchers for eating bugs. Maybe that's a good thing, as I do not have 1/1000th of that amount of bugs here for them to eat. I wonder how big of a dent they put in your bug population, James?
I do still have the darlingtonia on my kitchen counter, I haven't seen many fruit flies around (keeping fingers crossed).
The stalk for the flower has browned, and the old flower head will probably be dropping off before seeds are ready. C'est la vie... Pitchers here are starting to lay over from being gluttons. Same thing every year. The next full moon will lay them all over if sky is clear and pitcher is the type that has white color. I cut pitchers from the group and from more stand alone plants. Stand alone plants always most full of bugs. Pitchers outside full of water and suffering a bit due to the constant bloody rains. |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:19:55 GMT -5
Scott gets caught using the Miss's stuff a lot I bet. Actually, no. Once was enuf... hahahaha!! I like to see her go ballistic, tickles me. |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 15:26:46 GMT -5
My observation is a shrew or rodent made those holes. That in an effort to steal the contents. Seems like they were successful! Brooks the sarracenia master just said that is a carpenter bee escape hatch(hole). Since the cap eludes the bug optically they rarely escape out the top. Carpenter bee simply cuts his way out. So hole is from the inside to the outside. wicked and then he sent a note " they get stoned and pissed and stuck so they chew their way out". |
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Post by Pat on Aug 12, 2014 15:58:26 GMT -5
Ay yi yi!
My smallest had a small moth in it. Hope the plant didn't choke to death.
The others had lots (4-5) of ants in them. Nothing exotic or large like you have. Don't they ever digest? Did the plant run out of digesting juice?
There must be a good use for all those guts....
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 12, 2014 17:54:01 GMT -5
There must be a good use for all those guts....
I'm thinking as a weapon of revenge... Too soft to use with a wrist rocket, but one could go into the kitchen and borrow the strainer with the handle, and do some slinging. A little bit of stinky goes a long way...
Then you get to go out and buy a new strainer.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 17:57:16 GMT -5
Ay yi yi! My smallest had a small moth in it. Hope the plant didn't choke to death. The others had lots (4-5) of ants in them. Nothing exotic or large like you have. Don't they ever digest? Did the plant run out of digesting juice? There must be a good use for all those guts.... We could make a second epilogue Pat. Or try the guts as seasoning. |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 17:58:37 GMT -5
There must be a good use for all those guts....
I'm thinking as a weapon of revenge... Too soft to use with a wrist rocket, but one could go into the kitchen and borrow the strainer with the handle, and do some slinging. A little bit of stinky goes a long way...
Then you get to go out and buy a new strainer.
dang, you guys are cold blooded |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 12, 2014 18:03:39 GMT -5
We have great teachers!!!
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Post by Pat on Aug 12, 2014 19:30:37 GMT -5
We have great teachers!!! Hmmm, not sure we need teachers! Some skills just come naturally! jamesp, your top several photos look like peanut butter in celery sticks. Never did like peanut butter.  |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 12, 2014 19:46:33 GMT -5
We have great teachers!!! Hmmm, not sure we need teachers! Some skills just come naturally! jamesp, your top several photos look like peanut butter in celery sticks. Never did like peanut butter. Universal instinct. No teaching required. Gug butts great substitute for peanut butter Pat. yum yum |
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