do I kill insects like flies and other critters, then feed it? if not, how do I feed live flies to it? how do i catch live flies? help!
2006-07-22 15:42:53 · 10 answers · asked by kcobain96 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
If you want to feed your plants, you must find bugs. Bugs, bugs, bugs. The bugs must be small enough to fit into the trap with room to spare. I recommend caterpillars, flies, spiders, crickets, slugs or maggots.
I do not recommend ants (the leaves are often damaged afterwards), moths (too much fuzz), butterflies or beetles (too much sturdy exoskeleton).
make sure that the bugs you feed to your plant cannot eat their way out!
When feeding your plants, do not give a trap any food that is bigger than about 1/3 the size of the trap. If you give the plant a bug that is too large, bacterial rot will often set in, and kill the leaf. Plants in the wild and really well grown plants in cultivation can eat larger prey, but for beginners, the 1/3 trap size is a good rule for prey dimensions.
2006-07-22 15:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by ralcdm1993 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You can feed you venus fly trap, believe it or not, raw meat (no hamburger...too fatty) or dead insects(as long as they died of natural causes). All you do is put a tiny piece of the meat or the dead insect in the trap. The trap has a triggering mechanism that closes the trap, which is usually triggered by the movement of the insect across this trigger hair.
Whatever you do, do not trigger the trap without food in it, doing this can exhaust the plant, so that it won't be able to trigger the trap at a later time, and in essence, starve to death. The venus fly trap is the most common of the carnvirous plants that takes the majority of its nutrients from an external food source. Photosynthesis is strictly a mode for accumulating energy to close the trap upon trigger by an unassuming and oblivious insect.
2006-07-22 16:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by Bridget J 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Venus Flytraps are very easy to feed.
If you live in a area with lots of "love bugs" (they are black with a red helmet), they are great to feed to them. Ants are also a great free food supply. But if you don't have a lot of time looking for bugs you can buy some at bait stores or pet supply stores. But your Venus Flytrap will not eat it if the insect is dead.
Also in order to feed live flys put your Flytrap in a breatheable continar with some bugs or you can put the bugs in its mouth.....
Great LUCK!
2006-07-22 15:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't survive on flies. flies just provide them with more nutrients..so i guess it is good if you can feed them live flies but don't worry too much if you can't..just leave it in the sun and water it...they can still feed themselves..photosynthesis and all ;)
2006-07-22 15:46:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might I suggest flies.
2006-07-22 16:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by geotom 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nutrition: Carnivorous flora get carry of little nutrition from the soil. bugs are a nutritional complement that help the plant to advance quicker, yet are no longer required for the wellness and survival of the plant. opposite to delusion, do no longer feed your plant hamburger or the different human beings/puppy nutrition; it is going to kill the plant. by no skill use fertilizer on your carnivorous flora' soil.
2016-12-10 12:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by weissinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will feed itself if you put it outside in a sunny spot and make sure it is watered.
2006-07-22 15:46:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flies, flies, and more flies.
2006-07-22 15:46:51 · answer #8 · answered by Mittys Momma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have even given tiny pieces of burger meat
2006-07-22 16:17:33 · answer #9 · answered by Maxwell Smart(ypants) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your hand
2006-07-22 15:46:21 · answer #10 · answered by Ryan L 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋