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There were 3 or 4 living in that pitcher. My guess is they found shelter from hot sun and predators during the day, and a ready source of food. The plant got pre-digested, easily absorbed...

I've just been busy.

I've had quite a die-off among my plants, mostly among the utrics.

Would like to re-aquire some U. dichotoma -- that had pretty flowers.

I've been into photography for a while, and finally picked up Photoshop CS4 to improve my photos.

Here's a favorite of mine I recently touched up in photoshop to make the colors more like I...

Iapetus is phase-locked, meaning the same side always faces Saturn (like the Earth's moon does to the Earth). The dark side is dust deposited preferentially on the forward-facing side. The...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA08404.mov

This is pretty darn cool.

It's a movie made of Cassini images as it flies over Iapetus of 10 September 2007.

Here's the main article.
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No, they can climb out. I've watched them retreat all the way down, and then climb back up.

Shot with a Canon EOS 20D -- 8.3 megapixel. Should be high enough quality.

Think the ICPS newsletter might publish them?

I was out enjoying my bog garden tonight, and noticed a little frog peeking out of one of my pitcher plants -- this one is Sarracenia "Dana's Delight", a named cultivar. So I got out my camera and...

LOL -- FTG was naughty and tried to bypass the filter!

519 now

491, now.

You gotta whip that little guy HARD at the top step.

http://arcadelist.com/play_online.asp?Title=Stair-Fall

I love this.

My high score: 449

Heeeee!

Gotchya! :poke:

I live in Houston.

I have all manner of Sarracenia growing year-round outside. Also, temperate sundews, D. binata complex, D. adelae, U. gibba, U. livida, VFTs (although they require 6 weeks in...

(AP) Police were called to First Baptist Church of Ash Flat, Arkansas to arrest an 11-year-old boy Sunday on suspicion of making terroristic threats.

The bible school teacher, Lisa Forster, dialed...

Sorry, Cy-Fair Independent School District.

My daughter's 2nd grade class is having a field trip to the science resource center (a building shared by all CF ISD schools, I think) for a field trip called "eco adventure" -- it's a series of four...

Where was it posted?

The website wasn't entirely clear, but I gathered there were more plants than before.

http://atlantabotanicalgarden.org/site/involvement/bbkp_overview

I am planning a road trip this summer, perhaps early June, with my kids to go to Atlanta to visit my parents.

IIRC, some of our...

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8452/200704105ou9.jpg

S. alata bog garden:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/590/salatapd2.jpg

S. leucophylla:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6660/sleucophyllalm9.jpg

S. flava, about to munch on love bugs:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5012/sflavabg2.jpg