{"id":7125,"date":"2015-05-11T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2015-05-11T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:49:44","slug":"flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2015\/05\/flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Flies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing in a greenhouse has some advantages and disadvantages. One thing that I miss about growing outdoors is that my plants don’t feast on bugs as much compared to when I was growing outdoors. Now – I do leave my vents open, and insects do manage to find their way in. So my plants do eat — a little bit. I will be playing around this season with fertilizer as a supplement (like MaxSea…) but in the meantime I wanted to try something else this year. I thought it would be fun to let the plants do what they were meant to do. Catch their own food! A huge special shout out to Scott Creary, Entomologist of IPM Labs<\/a> (http:\/\/ipmlabs.com<\/a>), as well as Ryan Georgia of Native Exotics<\/a> (http:\/\/nativeexoticsonline.com\/<\/a>) for introducing us. Thanks guys! I had contacted Scott and purchased about 10k fly pupae. Yeah. Ten. Thousand. Fly. Pupae. Yummy! A nice little box arrived and this is what was inside:<\/p>\n

\"Fly10,000 fly pupae. In a beautiful green mesh bag. Brilliant presentation! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"FlyOMG!!!<\/p>\n

\"FlyI just placed the pupae on small trays all around the greenhouse and over the course of the week, they eventually emerged. And eventually got eaten. I only go to the greenhouse a couple times a week, so I wasn’t there to witness the flies emerge. Yes, I did notice more flies in the greenhouse, however I knew plants were doing their job as I would find scenes like the below at a much greater frequency that what I am normally used to seeing.<\/p>\n

\"Flies\"
\nFirst victim that I saw. Resistance is futile.<\/p>\n

\"Flies!\"Later that week, I noticed early on that the plants were starting to catch prey.
\n(Reflected as the darker areas in the pitcher base above.)<\/p>\n

\"Flies\"<\/p>\n

\"Flies\"<\/p>\n

…And, the Sarracenia were not the only ones having all the fun! The other carnivores were also having some fun too. More traps triggered on the Dionaeas, a few stuck to the Drosophyllum, and the Drosera were also having fun!<\/p>\n

\"Flies!\"
\n\"Flies!\"
\n\"Flies!\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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