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shrews in Nepenthes ventricosa x ephippiata

hi all,

today in my greenhouse i dicovered 3 shrews in a pitcher of ventricosa x ephippiata

the pitcher with shrews inside
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shrews during digestion
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Poor shrews. Have a hedgehog (part of the shrew family) for a pet, so its a bit sad to see.
 
Wild and Crazy! I love my Vent x ephippiata even more now....just will have to keep my daughters small rodents away from it! :lol:
 
Pity. Shrews are excellant rodent killers.
 
oh man I bet that smelled fantastic...
 
ewww.... that's gotta smell like roses I'm sure. :rolleyes:
 
yummy! well if you ever go hungry at least you know you got a plant that can help you catch food
 
hahahahaha! NOT what i was expecting at all!
what i was expecting was one of those in-situ photos of tree shrews taking a crap in a nepenthes toilet.

blew my mind. :lol:
that being said, it seems the temperate cousins fail at what their tropical ones do all the time. XD
 
Wow! Quite a rare thing to find an animal that big in a pitcher... I usually find nothing bigger than a lizard.
 
  • #10
Shrew stew.....
 
  • #11
There's documentation of shrews being found in pitchers of both N. ephippiata and N. lowii on a regular basis in wild populations. They're apparently very attracted by the heavy secretions under the lid. It's really interesting to see it in cultivated plants as well.
 
  • #12
Huh, very nice! Can't wait for my Rajah to grow that big! :)
 
  • #13
How big is that pitcher? I'm surprised you found one, let alone three, in there.
 
  • #14
I know what I wanna get now..
 
  • #15
wow nice find, but at the same time poor shrews but thats nature for ya
 
  • #16
Three shrews, one pitcher. :-))

Must be an awfully big pitcher! Do you have a size on that? Looks pretty big for ventricosa or an ephippiata.
 
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