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Cricket meal ( D. adelae )

NickHubbell

It’s a trap!
Well, it might be too big, but the D. adelae is enjoying a small cricket. I am hoping to take photos every hour to see how the tenticles react to the cricket.

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Tenticles have already moved into contact with the cricket.

Here is what the plant and cricket look like 1 hour later:

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After 2 hours ( It is still alive ):

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Closer view:

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Next morning, 8 hours later ( Cricket is dead ):

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More tenticles have come into contact with the cricket. The tenticles on the tip of the leaf have surrounded the cricket's antennea.

The second morning (1/15/2003):

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Even more tenticles have moved into contact with the cricket.

1/16/2003

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The cricket is not looking so good.
 
Becareful.....everytime my adelae catches something large, like a medium fly, the corpse will start rotting and the rot will spread to leaves. might be the high humidity kicking in.
 
Well, I wan't able to get the number of photographs that I wanted. Seems I wanted sleep more than taking the pictures.

Anyway, I will update the photos each morning until Friday.

Nick

P.S. I will watch out for rotting of the cricket. I have scissors standing by for emergency leaf removal.
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Yes, prey removal for this and the other Queensland Sisters (schizandra and prolifera) is strongly recommended. Nice photos Nick.
 
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