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By Barlapipas 6
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Today I checked some of my plants for pests. Fortunately I didn’t see any pests or signs of them. However I found a lot of living black - blue globular springtails inside of only one of my S.purpurea s pitcher. How on earth there are a bunch of springtails floating in just ONE pitcher and there aren’t any in other pitchers or the media?
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By coorain
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My guess is mama springtail thought that pitcher was a nice place to have her babies.
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coorain wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:23 pm My guess is mama springtail thought that pitcher was a nice place to have her babies.
Then mama springtail probably didn’t make a good choice 😔
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