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The Darlingtonia Californica has woken up from winter dormancy.

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Emerging green Darlingtonia California trap in a white plastic pot.

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New growth of Darlingtonia Californica traps against old growth in a white plastic pot with moss.

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Old growth of Darlingtonia Calfornia and moss in foreground with an emerging new trap in background.

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Can anyone ID this flying insect? It looks really neat. It was hard getting a photo of it and it didn't stay very long before it flew away.

Edit to add- thanks for the help everyone! :) It looks like it is a Sphecid/Sceliphron/Mud Dauber wasp. It came back and is enjoying more of the Sarracenia nectar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceliphron

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Orange and black flying insect at the lip of a Sarracenia pitcher plant.

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Sarracenia pitcher plant on balcony with a river in the background and a flying insect under the lid.

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133d

Whew! I knew this was going to be a tricky replanting and it was but went more smoothly than I'd expected. This mini bog started out in 2023 as a random throwing things together with different Sundew seed stalks, moss and some Butterworts in a Tupperware-type container using coconut coir as the growing medium and I actually didn't expect it to survive. It seemed to (mostly) do okay and it was time to move it to a larger container.

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Small bog with various carnivorous plants in a white catering dish on a wooden table.

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140d

Cleaned up and moved the dormant Drosera paradoxa (sundew) into a new pot. It's in an open glass container until the ambient humidity in this room goes up. This one came out of dormancy mid going into late March last year (see link at https://layer8.space/@chillicampari/112169585969118118), but it can vary. As I am doing with a few other plants, I top dressed it with chopped fresh sphagnum moss that I keep in a jar.

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Small Drosera Paradoxa in hibernation. The old traps have been trimmed off and it is in a fresh pot with a top dressing of sphagnum moss.

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124d

Checking in on the bog that I replanted on the 16th with a digital magnifier to see how it is settling in. Seems like it's doing okay (most sundew traps are progressing except for a couple and the Venus Flytrap seeds seem to have set). Some moss has burnt tips like it did in the old container and not sure if it's the lighting, dry conditions or something else yet.

Post of the actual planting at https://layer8.space/@chillicampari/114173052110800527

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