What's eating my drummond's pitcher plant?

Drummond's Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla) is a North American carnivorous pitcher plant grown as a houseplant or cool greenhouse specimen. Its main pest is aphids clustering on pitchers and phyllodia. Scale insects can infest pitcher stems, and fungus gnats breed in wet peat. The pitchers themselves trap and digest many visiting insects.

Colonies congregate on developing pitchers and flat winter leaves, causing distortion and blackening of pitcher lids Blast off with distilled water; insecticidal soap or dilute neem spray; introduce ladybugs outdoors

Brown waxy bumps on pitcher stems and rhizomes; sticky honeydew leads to sooty mold Scrape off manually; dab with isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab; avoid systemic insecticides that disrupt media chemistry

Larvae feed on roots in wet peat mix, causing wilting in younger plants Tray water with distilled or rain water; yellow sticky traps for adults