Where things like habit and taste are concerned, the nature vs. nurture debate can be endlessly pondered and studied. Where things like the human instinct to play with dirt are concerned, however, there’s no debate. Somewhere inside of us there’s a gene which dictates that we need to roll around in the mud, pick up snails, poke at worms and generally have a familiar relationship with the earth as children. And as adults, too–though perhaps a more cordial relationship.
For those with access to backyards or other flora-and-fauna-filled terrain, these urges can be easily satisfied. For those city-dwelling individuals who don’t have a patch of grass to their name, there are, luckily, other options to turn to. One such pocket of ingenuity exists in the Carnivorous Creations desktop bog.
The kit, which is available at ThinkGeek*, includes a Growing Dome, a bag of peat mix, a seed packet and a selection of plastic geckos. Combined in the right manner, these things yield a garden of Venus fly traps, Sundew plants and Cobra lillies, all of which eat insects.
Clearly, any plant that can digest an animal is awesome. Now, anyone with a square foot of table space can exercise his green thumb and bring such fascinating organisms to life. Finally, a happy irony in the world of consumer goods: the fact that only a human could invent such an efficient way of encapsulating nature.
*along with snow ball launchers, Darth Vader USB hubs, night vision goggles, and other essentials.
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This is pretty cool, have you seen the new pitcher plant they discovered in the Philippines? It eats insects too, as well as SMALL MAMMALS.
WHAT?!?!? LIKE BABIES??
I got a pitcher plant for my garden a few weeks ago. I haven’t seen it eat any flies yet. It is developing lots of new baby “pitchers”.
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