A nice meal for this pitcher plant

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While trimming back my pitcher plants (Nepenthes maxima), I usually check to see what kind of critters they catch in their traps. Usually its ants and other small insects & arthropods, and sometimes alien snails. But this trap (cut away) caught a young brown anole (Anolis sagrei). This is an upper trap and grow 8+ inches (20+ cm).Nepenthes traps are modified leaves designed hold liquid to capture prey by means of a pit fall method.See www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7932060120/in/photostream/The brown anole, the victim seen here, is likely the main culprit in the near disappearance of the green anole (Anolis carolinensis) that many of us grew up with in Hawaii. Lizards are not native to the Hawaiian Islands, nor is Nepenthes.www.flickr.com/photos/50823119@N08/5644420432/