FMJ, unpublished notes
“In the larger species, such as flava, sledgei [and] drummondii, small vertebrates were not unusually found—the common little green lizard and the green tree frog which often [were found] alive, was to be observed sitting in the leaves, were the vertebrate victims observed.
S. drummondii, April 29 in Theodore, AL
- Coleoptera 35
- Lepidoptera 11
- Diptera 35
- spider 1
In these larger pitchers, butterflies were infrequent; moths (Noctuoidea, especially) much more frequent; beetles in great variety; bees, wasps; occasional caterpillars.
- in locations subject to overflow, that water beetles sometimes stuffed these narrow-mouthed low growing pitchers;
- in drier localities, ants a frequent prey, but not to the exclusion of insects in wide variety, of suitable size to find entry.
- sometimes solidly packed with ants, and [they] ordinarily outnumber all other captures
- ground inhabiting beetles
- crickets
- creeping insects
- ants
Darlingtonia, July 24, 1918
- Lepidoptera
- Geometers 42
- Theclas 19
- Het. Calif. 1
- Plusia 3
- Other Noctuoidea 4
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