Hello! Something weird happened, I want to know what you guys think...
I came back home late yesterday and took the opportunity to catch a yummy fly enjoying my porch light.
So, naturally, I gave it, or tried to give it, to my Red Dragon Flytrap, which, I admit, I haven't fed in a while (read : about a month).
But when I put the fly (refrigerated to make it numb) into a trap, it wouldn't close, so I figured it was too old a trap, and thus tried every single trap available...with no success! Even the new ones!
It only worked when I shoved the poor, manhandled fly into a young trap and pushed the leave closed. It DID work! Under the prodding, the leave started to close on it's own sloooowly until it was completly sealed. Good thing that fly was stoned as a rock!
What gives? Too cold? Not liking me? Not hungry?
Or just plain too lazy and used to being hand-fed by mama?
My guess is we.. perhaps it was tired of biting the dust during the summer? (I left it outside and it kept chewing bits of soil the wind blew in it's traps.)
I came back home late yesterday and took the opportunity to catch a yummy fly enjoying my porch light.
So, naturally, I gave it, or tried to give it, to my Red Dragon Flytrap, which, I admit, I haven't fed in a while (read : about a month).
But when I put the fly (refrigerated to make it numb) into a trap, it wouldn't close, so I figured it was too old a trap, and thus tried every single trap available...with no success! Even the new ones!
It only worked when I shoved the poor, manhandled fly into a young trap and pushed the leave closed. It DID work! Under the prodding, the leave started to close on it's own sloooowly until it was completly sealed. Good thing that fly was stoned as a rock!
What gives? Too cold? Not liking me? Not hungry?
Or just plain too lazy and used to being hand-fed by mama?
My guess is we.. perhaps it was tired of biting the dust during the summer? (I left it outside and it kept chewing bits of soil the wind blew in it's traps.)