#bug breeding worked too good. fortunately bug elimination also worked super good

[sages-herp-garden]

so i recently learned that if you create the ideal conditions for bugs to breed in your bedroom sometimes that will extend past the bugs you intended to breed. oops!

my friend @ecosystim recently got a venus fly trap and that inspired me to try a carnivorous plant of my own. so i got an octopus plant!

i named him merle, obviously.

(cw for some close ups under the cut, showing better views of these black dots that are PRESUMABLY bugs? nothing particularly clear though)

i didnt want to get a venus fly trap bc those expend energy to close and open and i didnt know if i could feed it veronica's leftovers. like, she eats the abdomen and leaves most of the thorax and legs and maybe head, so i didn't know if they'd have enough nutrition left to be worth the energy for a venus fly trap.

i figured a pitcher plant would be a good dead bug waste bin... and decided to get the octopus plant instead, after an agonizing several minutes trying to decide.

i'm not sure how to go about feeding dead bugs to an octopus plant either, but merle clearly doesn't need the help. this fucker is a killing machine. i showed him to mom after taking a walk and he'd already caught all KINDS of shit. i checked against the prior pic and everything!

it's hard to discern if theyre actually bugs--i was expecting carpet beetles, which are the ones i'd seen hijacking my breeding setup--but idk what else theyd be? like, here's where i placed him:

you're supposed to leave the plastic sleeve on to preserve humidity, so nothing's gonna just drift in, but there are 2 slots on the side at the rim of the pot and the top is open, so bugs can climb in. those have to be bugs right??? merle is just a stone cold bug murderer i think. this is the stem of a killer bella.

i genuinely was not expecting this solution to be THIS effective THIS quickly. merle really said 'i heard you had a bug problem? say no more. give me 2 hours.'

bitch is so getting 5 stars on yelp.