can a venus fly trap be vegetarian if i feed it only vegetables and not allow it to eat insects?
2007-11-02 17:08:31 · 20 answers · asked by the king7 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
No because it is a carnivore eat will eat any kind of bugs but do not add any meat of any kind as this will rot the traps same goes for vegetables, feed it one bug per month.
2007-11-06 01:32:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a biologist I will tell you that the reason a fly trap eats the fly is to increase proteins they cannot make from the nutrients they get in their natural habitat. They probably don't make the enzymes needed to break down cellulose (a very difficult to digest carbohydrate that all plant cell walls are made of) so the veggie will end up rotting and may cause harm to the fly-trap! I think you should allow your fly trap to be the organism it was born to be and get rid of a few pesky flies for us!! Good luck with your experiments!!
2007-11-02 17:14:25 · answer #2 · answered by freefaller 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe they catch insects because the areas they live in (usually boggy etc.) do not have enough nutrients in the soil. I don't know if feeding only vegetables would provide the same nutrients or whether there would be enough protein, but I'm sure you could try it out, and watch the plant's reaction.
2007-11-02 17:12:48 · answer #3 · answered by tribyen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are probably all good answers, but you and the rest are overlooking the obvious taboo of cannibalism. What self-respecting plant would eat another plant except out of desperation, like the Donner party or those soccer players in the Alive movie?
2007-11-02 17:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by Me again 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps. But the intuitive sense of the v.f. traps is to catch insects.
2007-11-02 17:13:23 · answer #5 · answered by jimmybond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, they eat bugs. They need the nutrients in bugs not in vegetables.
2007-11-02 17:12:30 · answer #6 · answered by Wendi lu who 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flys are not veggies. No the fly trap needs insects, it will not thrive on veggies.
2007-11-02 17:11:34 · answer #7 · answered by canam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Use little pieces of hamburger instead. I did a little research, and it seems to be the way to go if you don't like seeing the bugs get killed.
2007-11-03 09:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by Tokyo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. It won't get enough nitrogen. It may not even be able to digest the vegetables.
2007-11-03 02:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It needs the protein from animals to live. It will die on vegetable diet.
(S)oy!
2007-11-02 17:11:24 · answer #10 · answered by Goethe's Ghostwriter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋