Re: re:pinguiculas and gnats

dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Wed, 10 Jan 96 22:04 EST

> Re: the recent thread on Pinguiculas eating fungus gnats...fungus gnats are
> attracted to yellow - a good way to get rid of them is to use those yellow
> sticky pads. The big light green leaves of a Pinguicula may well be 'read'
> as yellow by these gnats... maybe the leaves reflect some yellow-spectrum
> light. My P. moranensis spends the winter subsisting almost completely on
> these gnats, and nothing else seems to catch them, not even pygmy drosera.

Now this raises an interesting point, what do pygmy Drosera eat?
I've never seen anything on the few I grew in the past but perhaps
they were so unhappy with the conditions they couldn't.

Dave Evans