Enjoy Your Meal Part 1: Mice eating Nepenthes truncata

(This film participates in the ChloroFilms Video Contest. Please find more information at www.ChloroFilms.org)

A garden pond wich contains small peaty islands for Darlingtonia, Dionaea, Drosera and Sarracenia does not only look nicely in the early summer, as it is also soon attracting small animal carnivores as amphibes, reptiles and predatory insects like dragon flies and mantis. But there is even more to be seen when a large Roridula dentata at our balcony catches a big wasp which is immediately attacked by a hungry Pameridaea bug. And things become actually dramatically with the pictures of our multifold mice killing Nepenthes truncata. Part 2 will follow soon and show a simple method for a cheap enzyme testing on carnivorous plants with sticky traps.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• carnivorous plants
• Karnivoren
• Nepenthes
• truncata
• Darlingtonia
• Drosera
• Dionaea
• Sarracenia
• Roridula
• Pameridaea
• mus musculus
• Hausmaus

[MrNetgear1225]

pardon my ignorance, but what are those tiny little amphibians swimming in the pond?

[shartmeyer]

The amphipians are in German called "Bergmolch", in Latin "Ichthyosaura alpestris".

[UmagaAteTripleH]

@MrNetgear1225 i think they're called newts :)

[shartmeyer]

@UmagaAteTripleH Yes, correctly spoken "Alpine Newt" (Ichtyosaura alpestris).

[DCBIGmOney]

do roridula dentatas actually eat or absorb the bugs fluids or do they just catch em?

[shartmeyer]

Yes, it has been documented with radioactive marked fruitflies fed to the bugs. The radioctive nutrients from their droppings became absorbed through the stomata and were later detected in the plant tissue.

[darksack100]

2:50 and the assasin bugs get a free meal

[FrikZz0r]

bellsprout!

[MeerkatBoy1]

man thats creepy

[pthizzy12]

fascinating!!

[Carthsting]

Lizards are cute.

Those prehistoric midgets.

[STFUbelgium]

Smell must be fucking terrible...

[hempymc]

@MrNetgear1225 there newts a british/europian variaty i believe called red bells

[mscookielovinglife]

this vidoe was most informative. I am enrolled in a biology course at my university and my professor enticed my on this type if pkant. it really is a amazing