Illustration Friday- Nourishment
The Illustration Friday topic is Nourishment. My son and I are fascinated by carnivorous plants though growing them seems to be very difficult. We've managed to keep them for about a year at a time but never managed to get them to keep going longer. Of course, my son's friends visit and then the plants end up being hand fed with carefully caught bugs ; which i think is part of the reason for their early demise.
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Ewwwwww :-) ... but right on topic!
hee, hard to imagine a fly as nourishment but yeah this works !
Hi, Alison! Great to see you on ifriday! Good illo for the topic too. All the best, Emily :-)
This is one of the best and most original yet. Really like it.
I once had a Venus Flytrap and it finally grew-up big enough to eat a fly. And it did. Then it died. Must have been one rotten fly.
Original and well done. Bravo.
Very exciting story with these carnivorous things.... huh... ;) Good illo! ;) I'm not better.. I used red beetles :D
Great Ill. I just gave my daughters plant a bug last week! It is no longer with us. I didn't no your not supose to feed them!
I think they like to catch their own bugs so that they aren't swamped by nutrients [since they grow in nutrient poor soils in the wild]
Venus Flytraps and other carnivorous plants aren't really that difficult to grow if you know how to. Here's a great website telling you the requirements for Venus Flytraps. The latter URL is a good carnivorous plant forum.
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq.html
http://www.petflytrap.com/cgi-bin/ib312/ikonboard.cgi?;
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