re:pinguiculas and gnats

writserv@mi.net
Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:03:42 -0400

>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.
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>Scott
>Madison WI
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I have a rather large D. capensis that is "resting", but still very dewy
and it is speckled with the things (although less now because the fungus
gnats are not so active this time of year). My D. adelae, which is actively
growing in a near-freezing window has it's new leaves dotted with five or
more of the buggers, each. Sticky pads are considered redundant around
here.

Rand Nicholson (writserv@mi.net)
Canada