Here's one of my Venus flytrap flowers. You can see in the background there are some stowaway Drosera in the pot.

This Dionaea DCXL is already gigantic! These are 4" pots. I'll try to measure the trap next time.

I've been a bit slow to post lately since I had to temporarily move my plants to a new location (long story). But my plants are doing ok!...

Aldrovanda are also known as the waterwheel plant, and interestingly, their trapping mechanism is a lot like Dionaea (venus flytraps) -...

I've posted before on venus flytrap mechanism, referencing some cool research about how the flow of calcium ions plays a part in the...

I created some vinyl stickers to share my enthusiasm for carnivorous plants. In addition to helping to offset my hobby and website...

Sometimes it's mind-boggling to think that these are plants.

Dionaea are fascinating plants. They have active traps (as opposed to passive traps like pitcher plants). I describe this more on my...

I tried doing water gemination for my VFT seeds, and several of them were ready to pot yesterday. Since they've been in water this whole...

First leaves are out! Almost time to pot, I think.

Leaves are forming. I'm not exactly sure when to put them in soil but my friend Stephen said that he waits until the first leaves fall...

It's amazing how quickly these are growing.

It works! Day 10 and the seeds are starting to sprout. Amazing.

I tried water germinating some Drosera leaf pullings a while back, and while the did work, I still prefer regular soil germination. A...

This unlucky spider was trapped by my VFT and is now stuck in between its leaves.

Several years ago, I visited relatives in Boston. While looking for things to do in Cambridge, my family looked up local attractions to...

I collected the seeds from the pod I recently posted. They are so tiny! Each line on the ruler below is 1mm, which is the approximate...

These are some seeds pods that I'm going to collect soon.

Pretty big flytrap (B52). Pretty big spider.

So this happened today.