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Can you feed a pitcher plant meat, Iā€™ve seen pitcher plants consume birds and mice in the wild?

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  1. Clark

    I wouldnā€™t. It can rot them. Depending on the size and kind of yours it will most likely eat insects. You can get some just looking around your house or backyard, or at a pet store. They donā€™t really need to be fed and usually catch stuff themself

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      Thank you!

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  2. nepenthomancer

    Nepenthes are the only carnivores with traps large enough for this to happen naturally. And it always rots the pitcher 100%. The digestive liquids in nepenthes arenā€™t acidic so theyā€™re not designed to break down that complex of prey, and what can get broken down does not do so quickly at all. It smells horrible, will always rot the entire pitcher off, and the plant canā€™t even use much of the little that does break down. I have seen people leave it when a rat or frog or bird has fallen into a trap and drowned just to see what would happen but the truth is itā€™s just a very smelly way to sacrifice a pitcher and youā€™ll be cleaning up nastier animal remains if you leave it. All carnivorous plants can get ā€œburnedā€ by being fed anything they wouldnā€™t naturally be able to catch in the wild (outside of say, osmocote pellets) like the other comment suggests, I highly encourage you to let your plant a catch itā€™s own food! It doesnā€™t need bugs to live and as long as you keep it healthy and itā€™s not in an enclosed environment it will catch on its own. Omg Iā€™m sorry for the essay I just think this is a question a lot of people might have and wanted to be thorough šŸ˜‚

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