I haven't clicked on the link, and I don't grow carnivorous plants, but I did read an article today about one which ate a blue tit... or tried to anyway, it went rotten before the plant fully digested it.

I read that and wondered if you was the start of the'Silly season' in the press? You would not want the budgie to get out if you had one of them in your living room!

I can conceive of it, if the plant was stood outside - blue tits get everywhere on my balcony, even managing to swoop into the sitting room via the open transom.

:))

Thank goodness mine is only a little drosera and can't manage anything bigger than a small fly!

I need some of the ones that eat rats at work--the roof rats are driving us nuts!

Hi Tugb not sure what a roof rat is ?

Puts me in mind of 'Little shop of horrors' i have never tried but i know someone who grows pitchers ;)

It's the local name for the black rat, or ship rat, Drc:

http://www.maricopa.gov/EnvSvc/VectorControl/RR/RRInfo.aspx

I've tried everything except poison, and we have pet cats in the nursery, so that's out!

Loved that BA!

Thanks Tugb that sounds awful. I was not sure about the 'roof' bit as Squirrels are sometimes called tree rats.

ive got pitchers there fine and not big enough to eat anything bigger than l;arge insects . theresquit a few types varying from tiny up to rat eaters as said .

Nothing bigger than rats, Nosey? I was hoping that they would come with much larger capacity - say man size!!!!

You and a dozen Hollywood producers, Bulbaholic! : D

lol i hear you bulbaholic sometimes rats and people are the same thing surely .