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So I live in central Arkansas, and I want to grow some zigzag bladderwort (Utricularia subulatal) as they are of conservation concern in my state and the bug population is high, I am gonna plant them in an old growth forest that has some rocky clearings and a lot of clay, I can't test the pH, but I will before I buy the plants. Can they grow here?

I also have a few other bladderworts I want to grow.

floating bladderwort (Utricularia inflata) and greater bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza). They are also of conservation concern.

Here is what I am working with for water, I couldn't figure out how to get the image to display, so Google drive link.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8YaTz ... p=drivesdk

This is just one section, the stream is a fair weather stream, in summer it's dry, and it makes a complete loop around my property. I might be able to find some all weather spots, I have an active crawdad and frog population, I even know where the tadpoles usually are.

The floating ones may work as long as the water is very mineral poor, but the others won't. Likely the water is too high in TDS, so they'll die. The nutrients in the clay and minerals in the rocks will kill the ones you plant there. When the stream dries up, it will kill them. They won't do anything for a bug problem no matter how many plants you grow as their traps are on their roots.

Okay, thanks for the info.

floating u. gibba will. it took over my fish tank 700+TDS ph of 8 did not even slow it down.

Oh, so if I plant it somewhere that's a know mosquitoes spawn area it'll tapper the population?

The plants will eat some of the mosquito larvae, but I don't think it will be enough to put a noticeable dent in the local mosquito population.

Also, the location where you put the plants has to be sunny. If it's shaded too much by the trees, then the bladderworts will die off from lack of light.

Okay, thanks for the tip. I don't want to fully reduce the population. It's just been getting worse so I want to introduce something to help.