So anyway, I've mentioned at length about my various carnivorous plants and I'm currently sitting at 4 terrariums, most of which have some form of carnivorous plant in them. I'm also trying to build up a few colonies of springtails.

So, anyway. Plant.

In tank #3, we have Hybrid Mexican Butterwort, affectionately known in the plant world as 'Pings' due to the genus name of Pinguicula. Yeah, I'll get better pictures eventually.

Moving to tank #2...Sarracenia! Better known as Pitcher plants. Unsure of the varity of the big one on the left. I've had that one for about two years now. Back right is S. Barba Green while the one up front is S. maroon.

Meanwhile, this absolute unit is a S. purpurea purpurea.

Ripley intermission as we transition to tank #4 (tank #1 is presently empty).

First up is the poster child of carnivorous plants, the Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscupula). This one is just the standard wildtype.

While this one is an Akai ryu, or red dragon.

Drosera, or better known as Sundew. These are both D. filiformis filiformis.

D. intermedia or Bird's Nest Sundew.

Some pings I'm trying to cultivate. These are P. primuliflora or Early Butterwort (mother plant can be seen in the red fly trap picture). Unlike the Mexican butterworts, these don't have a succulant phase.

Moving right along to the creepy crawlies.

These are Tiny Blue Springtails (Hypogastruridae sp) from the Keystone Lake, OK area. To give an idea of how fuckin' tiny these things are, they're munching on malt-o-meal grain.

Yellow Albino Springtails (Ceratophysella isabellae).

And finally, Little Soil Springtails “LSS” (Thalassaphorura encarpata).

These were all purchased from Springtails US.

Angels angels said:

Oohh How cool and pretty! I love sundew. I wish I could keep plants alive lol. Do you feed them manually and if so how often?

Yeah, since they're in terrariums, they won't be able to catch bugs very well unless something gets in with them. Typically, I'll feed them if I manage to catch something for them...Which since it's been summer time and there's a ton of flies, they've been eating well. The pings get dehydrated bloodworms that I've ground up. I can give the same to the other plants, though for the fly traps I'd rehydrate it with distilled water. The other day, everyone got a tasty meal of grain month larvae.

I discovered that they'd gotten into the horse treats that I'd bought for Oklahoma and I took that personally. My red dragon flytrap got two, and the two larger pitchers got some. My two small ones aren't really large enough to be fed yet and my wild type flytrap didn't get any since it presently has a bunch of small traps.

I need to feed the sundew, but I've been having to wait for them to produce dew since that's part of their digestive method.

New plants, who dis.

Both are sundew. One on the left is Drosera capensis or 'octopus plant'. The one on the right is Drosera spatulata. D. capensis comes from the cape of African while D. spatulata is found all over the place in southeast Asia. They both like their roots to stay wet, which is why they're currently in a container of water. This is temporary while I get their new tank set up.