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I just let em' wing it, and i drop in anything i find crawling around the house. I suppose it would work though. I used to use pillbugs to feed my neps when they were indoors.
so TS yours are outside? Thats awesome that way they can do it them selves.
I forgot to mention I passively feed my campanulatas fruit flys. What I do is get a bannana and leave it in the back yard for a few days, sometimes I forget about it for alittle to long. Then I place the fruit in my grow chamber and let the flys hatch and do whatever. I Then notice that they only go my campanulats and my smaller pitchers that I can't feed waxworms to. I'd imagine this would work rather well for people with sundews.
Crickets crickets crickets. I have only killed a very few pitchers with over feeding. Just try to size the cricket to the pitcher. It should not take up more than 1/8 or so the total pitcher volume. I have cheated on that a few times, sometimes ok, sometimes not. Killed a jacquelenae pitcher with a cricket about 1/3 the pitcher volume....silly, silly Schloaty
We got bloodworms that were frozen so I did a little piece in my pitcher. We could not get any crickets but we will get some next time we go to the pet store we will get some. thank you,
I find that fruit flies are the best food all around for my CP's. You can buy "flightless" fruit flies at a local pet store (usually in the reptile area). They work great!
I got some crickets but they are gone in the house and they didn't stay in the pitchers when I put them inthere and now one of my pitchers is broke because it wouldn't stay in there.. I then got some fruit flys and they are under a cup and they won't go inside the ptichers and they are coming out from under my cup. My cat ate a cricket but I need the plant to eat one. I can't pull legs off a cricket to make it not move so i maybe need more ideas before we get to get ants.
well if the cricket is able to escape you are probly feeding the pitcher a rather large cricket. try half of a cricket or buy "pinheads" they are small freshly hatched crickets that are easily digested.
There has got to be a better way than pulling legs off a live cricket. Can't one just stick a cricket in a baby food jar and stick it in the freeer for about an hour or so? Does a Nep really care if the cricket is dead and freshly dethawed or live and kicking and doing damage down in the pitcher? What about those wax worms, somebody mentioned those. They sound like a viable option.
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