Sundew and lizard
Mikinalo* (Drosera anglica) has captured a baby brown anole (Anolis sagrei).
Photo: Oʻahu (Cultivated)
I've never seen a sundew catch prey larger than a small bee or cricket. The usual size of prey (gnat or fruit fly) can be seen just lower and to the right. This tiny lizard, perhaps not more than a day or two old, leaped onto the wrong plant this time and likely got bogged down by the copious amounts of "dew" produced by the sundew which made its escape impossible. The leaves, then, secured the prey for digestion by wrapping around the lizard.
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* The Hawaiian name Mikinalo literally means "to suck flies." Living in poor nutrient deficient soils, the modified leaves of sundews extract vital nutrients from insect prey as a "fertilizer" as they are digested.
Mikinalo is the only carnivorous plant native to the Hawaiian Islands. They are rarely cultivated, even in Hawaiʻi. Naturally found only on the island of Kauaʻi in some of the swamps and bogs at higher elevations.
The Drosera anglica that are native the Hawaiian islands are unique in that they do not experience nor need a dormancy period as in the northern temperate parts of its range and can be grown year round if kept moist to wet. For more information on how to grow the tropical variety of D. anglica see nativeplants.hawaii.edu/search/?query=drosera
These photos show a larger brown anole trapped in a Nepenthes:
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