The biology club on campus is having their annual (or maybe bi-annual) plant sale. I’ve purchased stuff from them before. They get their wares from nurseries in the area that donate their less-than-pristine goods to the club. The stuff is in fine shape – it’s just a little … disheveled, say. This year, they got some stock from California Carnivores. And the Drosera multifida at the bio club’s table looked really interesting. So I got it. It had already acquired a good set of tiny bugs on its branches and was curling up to digest them. They also had chives, zucchinis, various cacti, herbs, etc.
Note: the California Carnivores growing tips states right at the top of the page that these critters will not put up with tap water. Rain water, distilled water, reverse-osmosis water are OK, but anything with dissolved crap (ok, ‘salts’ is what they say) in it will doom your bug-eating plant.
I’m going to see if I can get them to catch the little flying bugs around my apartment. The giant begonia is blooming with the coming spring, but it’s pot is home to a nest of little flying things. (The spiders are eating well, too.) One of the bio students at the table suggested that if I insist on keeping the plant indoors, that I may have to purchase flightless fruit flies to feed it!