23 August 2011

The Hapless Spider

We had this Venus Fly Trap at home in Kathryn's greenhouse.  We noticed that it wasn't catching any bugs so we thought we would take it out to West Virginia where there are plenty of bugs.  We were quite right.  It straight away got to gobbling and had soon filled all of its traps and proceeded in a growth spurt to produce more.  It was especially gratifying to watch it entrap a yellow jacket one afternoon.  One morning we noticed that it had caught a daddy-long-legs spider, or at least most of it.  As you can see in the picture below it couldn't quite get all the legs.





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