This is the same question I asked a year ago about overeating. Supposedly, it can't....

When mine got a belly(s)-full of flies, it began growing - vegetatively. Just no more pitchers, since they were now superfluous...it had no more need to 'eat' until only recently.

Nutrient absorption from prey alone is not enough to sustain a plant and keep it growing. It requires nutrients, water and all sorts of elements to keep a plant growing well and developing new pitchers. Producing pitchers is not a result of whether a plant is "eating" too much and not making them because they are "satiated" but rather because they are not receiving the nutrients they require. Plants need something to keep them alive and producing.
Use a diluted liquid fertilizer like Peter's Orchid, Liquid Seaweed extract, or other low salt blend. Liquid fertilize the plants at least once a moth and water well in between with plain tap water to flush out excess salts and micronutrients from building up.
Plants always have pitchers on them all the time.
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If a plant is pitcher-less then something is seriously wrong. Remember a pitcher is a modified LEAF not a flower, not a fruit not a "special" part of the plant. It's a leaf that a plant makes ro sustain energy, make food and develop new growth with.!

Thanks guys. I forgot until now that I posted this! I'll just let it do it's thing. It's growing like a weed outside. I think it thinks it's in Malaysia here in Ga, very similar conditions right now.

I'll just leave it alone and when I bring it in this winter, it'll have a rest, although there are plenty of bugs in my bathroom for it to eat too, unfortunately, lol. Thanks again!

I think you're missing the point here. Those who live in temperate zones should make sure your plant is fattening up while they can to winter over even as dormant plants through colder periods.
Fertilizing now would ensure that the plant is soaking up lots of rays of sunlight and converting food energy into storage tissues. Thicker stems, heavier root stocks, more leaves etc.
Just having water and bugs is not going to cut it and I wouldn't be surprised that after the winter season you'll be writing about the dead Miranda that got so thin and weak that it just gave up.

Woo hoo hoo hoo! Harsh!

Actually rainforestguy, I did not miss the point. I was well aware all along of the need for fertilization. I did not mention that, as my only concern was whether or not it was eating too many bugs. Those are completely different issues. When I said I will leave it alone, I meant that I will leave the pitchers alone.

What are you Hegory, a high school student?

Rainforestguy, you sound like a one trick pony. Yeah, we got it-fertilize nepenthes!

Besides by the look of your pictures it looks like you live in the tropics-maybe Hawaii. No wonder you say Nepenthes are weeds.

actually, I am a High school student!

So let me understand what you are saying then. If you didn't "leave the pitchers alone,.." you'd be feeding them bugs? Is that it?
Fertilizing the roots and feeding pitchers are as different things as absorbing vitamin D through your skin and swallowing a vitamin pill of Vitamin D.
Now that I hope you understand the difference let me get back to my point about fertilizing the root zone (NOT the pitchers, not foliar feeding, not mind transcending fertilizer vibes mentally into your plant-these three points are as valid and worth about the same when it comes to fertilizing your plants other than through the roots). You must fertilize when the plants are actively growing and can utilize sunlight, warmth, being outside and the other elements that surrounds it. Just because your pitchers are full of bugs means actually nothing, as these work differently as far as nutrient absorption goes in nepenthes. If we gave each mode of nutrient absorption a purpose, it would be like; insect food in the pitchers would make the pitchers more colorful and attractive to bugs, while nutrients through the roots would make bigger and more profuse traps and plant growth. Does this make sense?
This is the difference between having a small weak plant with beautiful pitchers and a plant that is growing robustly AND making beautiful pitchers.
Fertilizing has its own merits and has nothing to do with whether a plant has bugs in its pitchers or not. Apples and oranges.
This is my point.
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Hello,

i have a healthy nepenthes alata. It has lots of pitchers and i am keeping outside for the sumer. This week it seems to be a lot of moths around and it has cought many making some pitchers half full. Few days ago one pitcher started to rot and 2 more seem to be going the same way. What should i do? Should i empty the pitcher that look too full?

Sugestions please!

thanks

it has done its task. when it starts to turn black, trim it off.

I usually just let them dry up on their own. Once they are all brown and flat then I trim off the pitcher.