...or Lady Luck Nepenthes
My family has just added to our household a plant that we’ve named “Whitey” in honor of the legendary pitching star of the New York Yankees, Whitey Ford.
Since in recent months we’ve experienced unusual amounts of rain, we have been invaded by hosts of gnats, fruit flies, and mosquitos. Before considering large-scale fumigation, we’ve resorted to the use of a unique plant called the pitcher plant. This plant’s unusual quality is that it is carnivorous. It consumes small bugs and even mosquitos. Right now Whitey is just an infant, so we have to “bottle feed” him until he gets a little older. He gets one bug a month in his pitchers along with a little rainwater to help encourage bugs to enter the traps. The plant is really a colorful and pretty addition to the family.
We are hopeful that Whitey will live up to its promise and rid us of those pesky summer flying insects.
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