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I fed my Venus fly trap, a dead fly and it won’t close all the way why?
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Skye 🌿could be a number of things, including trap age, water, soil, light, and many other factors; the hairs also have to be stimulated in rapid succession by a living insect for it to close all the way, perhaps it knows the bug was already dead lol 🤷♀️
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lol thanks
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ClaudiaThey don’t typically like already dead bugs. Its the bugs movement that makes the jaws close tight
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OK, I’ll be sure to activate their trigger hairs
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They have to stay alive for a certain amount of time after full Closure to trigger the plant to produce the digestive juices. The only way I know of to feed it with dead bugs is there’s a way you can do it with dried blood worms. Not sure much more
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Mr Plant GuyGet some mealworm! I use reptile food mealworms from the pet store. Just feed them on cucumber and put some plain oats in and they last ages
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