Re: Sarracenia food
Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:47:24 -0500 (EST)
> Hey all, a few weeks ago one of my Sarracenia purpurea had a squiggly thing
> in a pitcher too. A centipede! There's nothing much left of it either. It's
> the largest prey I've been able to document in my own plants.
>
> Anyone else have experience with "invertebrate megafauna?"
>
> Carlo
My N. mirabilis and S. purpurea are both effective garden snail traps.
The only proof - other than the smell- is the pile of empty shells that
are left in the pitchers. For size, the big Sarrs. and S.minor
occasionaly catch Palmetto bugs, which is our tourist-industry name for
giant ugly cockroaches. They average just under 2" long and sometimes
fly.
Tom in Fl.