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i let my flytraps catch whatever insects are unfortunate enough to stumble into the plants...
mine seem to catch alot of daddy-longlegs...kinda cool because the daddy-longleg's body will be trapped in the flytrap but the legs are usually left sticking out squirming to get free...pretty gruesome.
ive read that insects that are poisonous can be bad to feed to you flytrap (spiders, some ants, etc)..when the trap disgests the poisonous bug, the trap turns black and dies. ive had this happen when my traps eat some kinds of the ants on my deck...
I had something similar happen to my butterwort involving an ant. At a guess I'd say the formic acid in ants does not mix well with plant matter. Why it would be any worse than caustic digestive juices is beyond me though
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