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@carltoncarnivores.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 3:15 AM

Drosera regia has some of the most impressive leaf movement behavior in the genus when it’s fed. I need to get them out of the crappy peat mix they’re in currently before I make a vid with them, but they’re looking pretty good right now.
#drosera #carnivorousplants #sundew #botany #horticulture

@mickpic.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 3:04 AM

#31DaysOfHalloween
"Some women love roses.
Mine loves plants that eats things." -mick
#Photography #MickPic #PNW #WCK #ECK #Flowers? #Bloomscrolling? #VenusFlytrap #Sundew #CarnivorousPlants #Oregon

The image shows a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) with its signature jaw-like snapping traps on top, and a sundew (Drosera species) covered in sticky, glandular tentacles on the bottom.

Key Care Tips for Carnivorous Plants

• Water: Use only distilled water, reverse osmosis (RO) water, or collected rainwater. Tap water contains minerals that will kill these plants over time. Keep the soil consistently moist (often by placing the pot in a shallow tray of water).
• Soil: Plant them in a nutrient-poor medium like a 50/50 mix of peat moss and perlite. Never use standard potting soil or Miracle-Gro, as fertilizers will burn their roots.
• Light: They need full, direct sunlight (at least 6 hours a day) or a strong grow light to stay healthy and develop deep red color inside their traps.
• Feeding: Do not fertilize the soil. They catch their own bugs, or you can occasionally feed them a tiny live or thawed frozen insect (like a small flightless fruit fly) only if they are grown outdoors.

@bagelsofdoom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:39 AM

Drosera natalensis

#Drosera #Sundew #Droseraceae🌱

@bagelsofdoom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:35 AM

Drosera ultramafica x spatulata

#Drosera #Sundew #Droseraceae 🌱

@carltoncarnivores.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:39 AM

Highland sundews that probably need to be repotted again (because the last peat batch was utter crap it turns out)
#drosera #sundew #carnivorousplants #botany #plants

@oddlytruejp.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:00 PM

🌸 A plant that eats insects is being eaten by one.

Japan's spoon-leaved sundew closes its flowers harder when touched if a caterpillar-like attack hit its leaves first.

No brain. So what is it "remembering"? Nobody knows yet.

#Sundew #CarnivorousPlants #PlantScience

@benjaminlong-art.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:29 PM

The Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial at University of Mary Washington opens today.
My mixed media painting Showdown is part of the exhibition.

#painting #drawing #biennial #twister #sundew #Virginia #Fredericksburg

@causticautistic.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 4:19 PM

More #MacroMonday.

#chicago #botanicgarden #nature #naturephotography #sundew #buds #flower #flowers #prettylittleflowers #flowerporn #macro #macrophotography #photography #photosky #bloomscrolling