Post by kby on Jun 17, 2008 7:58:13 GMT
I accidentally ran across an amusing (if not terribly useful) technique for feeding VFTs. I actually find the larger clones (e.g. B52) are harder to keep fed, as they can't feed on the little carpenter ants the smaller traps can, and, for me at least, the neighboring Sarracenias gobble up almost all of the flies and wasps.
However, when I went out to visit my plants, I noticed there was a fly in the Drosophyllum pot. It wasn't caught on the Drosophyllum, but had apparently brushed one of its wings against either old prey or the Drosophyllum leaf itself, then landed on the soil in the pot (sand+perlite) so that it had managed to get a hunk of perlite attached to one of its wings. It couldn't fly and was wandering around trying to get the perlite off, which made it pretty easy pickings for a pair of tweezers on the other wing (at which point, when firmly grasped by the tweezers, I removed by hand the attached piece of perlite, then fed the fly to the B52 VFT. Bwaaaaaa!-kby
However, when I went out to visit my plants, I noticed there was a fly in the Drosophyllum pot. It wasn't caught on the Drosophyllum, but had apparently brushed one of its wings against either old prey or the Drosophyllum leaf itself, then landed on the soil in the pot (sand+perlite) so that it had managed to get a hunk of perlite attached to one of its wings. It couldn't fly and was wandering around trying to get the perlite off, which made it pretty easy pickings for a pair of tweezers on the other wing (at which point, when firmly grasped by the tweezers, I removed by hand the attached piece of perlite, then fed the fly to the B52 VFT. Bwaaaaaa!-kby
