[David]

ghan3sh,

I feed my neps with pet shop crikets as I live in an apartment. Not much insects living high above in the air.

They seem to love crikets. I can see a spurt of growth within 1-2 weeks after I feed them the crikets.

However, if your pitchers are small, you need to cut the crikets into smaller pieces. That's what I do for my gracilis pitchers, sibuyanensisa, younger plants, etc. For bigger pitchers I'll drop 1-3 crikets in the pitcher.

I tried mealworms before and like you said its no good. I do not know about the negative effects of calcium in mealworms, but my neps did not really show a spurt of growth when I feed them that. By the way, I thought calcuim is good? Some people even use egg shells soaked in water and placed under the sun for a couple of weeks to have the calcium leach into the water to be used on their plants.

I'm not sure but i think calcium in the pitchers should not be a problem. If it is used on the roots, then there will be problems. Afterall, the pitchers do capture bugs etc and most defitnally would desolved calcium into the picther fluid when they are digested.

Please correct me if I am wrong.