On Wed, 27 May 2015 17:27:57 +0100, "Bob Hobden" wrote:

"Judith in England" wrote


I grew some teasels two years ago: and last year grew some more from their
seeds.

They are doing fantastically well - very healthy. I noticed again the
amount
of water which collects in the leaf bases - and then I saw a number of
small
slugs and snails - drowned - in some of them. I wondered if they were
acting
a bit like a Pitcher Plant - and were carnivorous in any way. A few
searches
about teasels and I find that lo and behold they are.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0017935


(Off out now to catch some flies to feed my teasels)


So will you be feeding your Teasels with maggots as per the experiment? :-)

Good plan. There is a fishing tackle shop which sells them - I went to buy
some Dendrobaena to replenish my wormery after they all died about three years
ago - they have kept going since then.

On second thoughts - perhaps I'll just put some of the worms from the wormery
in to the teasels!!