Re: Harmful prey?

From: Michael Reardon (m-reardon@adfa.oz.au)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 17:36:22 PST

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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:36:22 +1000
From: "Michael Reardon" <m-reardon@adfa.oz.au>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Harmful prey?

Hi Stefan,

> I wonder if I can feed wood lice (aka sow- or pill-bugs) to my CP
> (esp. Dionaea and Cephalotus). I know these animals are no insects
> but land isopods (Crustacea) -- little ugly land lobsters :-)

> I found some flytrap animation (venus.mov) on somebody's homepage
> which shows a Dionaea trap a wood louse. Are they (and cephs) able
> to digest them and can they be any harm?

I don't know about Lady Bugs but I kept a VFT alive for years feeding
it almost entirely on Wood Louse - it thrived on them.

>What about certain poisonous critters like house spiders and ants.
>Can their poison/acid hurt the plants? What about lady-bugs (aka
>lady-birds) and their yellow secretion?

Small spiders seemed to be digested OK. Ants were not so well
received. I guess they're too acidic since the traps tended to rot
away.

Cheers

Michael

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