Oh thats a horrid topic title, I'm sorry.... so yah, spring break I spent my time avoiding the swarms of lady bird beetles that awoke from hybrenation in the walls. It's never as bad in the spring as it is in the fall, but it came close this year. The interesting part however, is the feast they gave my plants. Now I honestly have no idea what possesses a carniviours insect to enter traps, but these things did in droves. It's so funny to look at my sarr with their early leaf/trap things wedged full of lady bugs so they look just like giant peapods, lol! Has anyone else found ladybugs to be easy victums of their plants or are the ones in my house just extra stupid?
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that would be their blood, and yah it is a toxin, hence the bright red shell with black spots and the horrid smell of their blood/body fluids. They kill my VFT traps too, but thankfully only one has been actually captured by my vfts, all the rest are in my northern and tropical pitcher plants who are better equiped for big meatly toxic things.[b said:
Yeah Ladybugs are easy prey. My plants were eating them up. I have found that in my young Nepenthes they fall in my pitcher and I guess they are too big because the trap starts to rot.
Also have any of you noticed when you look at a Ladybug in the pitcher fluid the wings and wing covers (I am sure that isn't the technical name, but what the hey
) are sprawled out?
Also have any of you noticed when you look at a Ladybug in the pitcher fluid the wings and wing covers (I am sure that isn't the technical name, but what the hey
