Hello from Weil am Rhein, Germany

[shartmeyer]

30 years ago (1977) as a young laboratory director (analytical chemistry) in Switzerland - living at the Swiss border in Germany - I started collecting CP together with my wife Irmgard and became a member of the ICPS in the late 1980s. About 1988 we decided to combine CP with our second hobby: the filming of our traveling to diverse world wide destinations. The result is a number of published articles and private movies on diverse CP habitats, ICPS conferences and reports on particular CP topics. Our last work, which some of you may know from the ICPS conference in Frostburg, was an investigation of the rapid moving marginal "snap-tentacles" and emergences of genus Drosera.
Since 2000 I am retired and therefore I find some more time to enjoy the fascinating world of carnivores. I am glad that the ICPS provides this new forum now, and I am looking forward to find lots of interesting information and discussions.

[marcel]

Welcome Siggi. please keep making those nice movies.

Will we see you at Leiden for the EEE?

[Clint]

We are so glad to have you here!

[maraxas]

It's about time you introduced yourself!

Glad to have you on the boards.

I did purchase your movies after the conference in Frostburg. I only got to see the clips of the Borneo exotics movie, and didn't get to see the movie on snap tentacles.

Now I own them both. ;D

Highly recommended.

[shartmeyer]

Thank you very much for such a friendly welcome. Please apologize the delay of my reply, but I was engaged in the organization of the Swiss CP-meeting, which took place last Sunday in Basel (pictures are here: www.hartmeyer.de/CH_TREFFEN_01.htm,
and therefore I was really busy.
To Marcel: We would love to, and will try our very best to come to Leiden, but unfortunately due to some health problems with my parents, the chance is about 50:50 at the moment.
To maraxas: Thank you for your kind recommendation!

[marcel]

Let's hope it works out. Best wishes for their health.

[glider14]

say...dont you have a Drosera named after you? has the secret of the mystery glands on the leaves been revealed? nice to have ya here!
Alex

[shartmeyer]

To Marcel: Thank you very much, also from my parents!
To Alex: yes, Jan Schlauer described and named the plant 2001 in CPN. Concerning the "mystery glands": we examined the structure of the lens-headed yellow tentacles and published our results 2006 in "Das Taublatt" in the German language. (Online version with pictures: www.hartmeyer.de/ArtikelundBerichte/artlichtreflektoren_D.htm ). An English translation will soon be ready.

Very short: The lens-headed tentacles reflect yellow light from a dark red background, which is very attractive to insects. Important for their strategy: they appear not only at every leaf-base in the plant centre, but also very prominent on every sickle shaped dark red bract at the mostly upright hold flower stalk, building a kind of light chain. Pictures can be found in this forum at icps.proboards105.com/index.cgi?board=drosera&action=display&thread=1180827176

[pinglover]

A very warm welcome to you. Thanks for joining the ICPS forums.

[wadave]

Welcome from Dave in Western Australia,

Thanks for taking the time to put the photos of the mouse caught in the nepenthes. There are so many references to this, but no actual photos.... until now!