I need some help with my venus flytrap

[Lofter619]

Well, It's like this. I try to find some flys for my Venus Flytrap to eat, but I can't seem to find any. I have resorted to feeding it some dead flies that i bought at a pet store. I put one fly in a trap and than i take a small tooth pick and gently brush a trigger hair twice. But in 24 hours the venus flytrap is open again and it didn't eat the dead fly. Do you guys have any tips for me on how I can find some flies or even how i can attract them more to my venus flytrap?? I also wanted to know if it is healthy for my venus flytrap to eat some nutriet enriched labrotory flies from a little container I bought at the store. They are meant for Small lizards but I read on a website that it is ok to feed them to Venus Flytraps. Please Help!!

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If you Aim for nothing, You're sure to hit it.[/QUOTE] Last night, as I lay in bed, I stared up at the stars in the sky and i thought to myself,"Where the heck is the ceiling?!?!?" 08-20-2003, 07:46 PM #2 Daniel View Profile View Forum Posts Join Date Aug 2001 Posts 371 Mentioned 0 Post(s) Tagged 0 Thread(s) ooh...don't feed your venus fly trap dead flies. After triggering the trigger hair, the fly will move inside of the venus fly trap telling the fly it caught a "live" insect, instead of other things that can trigger the hairs, such as a raindrop. And those flies you buy at pet stores are I think flightless fruitflies, they are very small, and I'll just think it might be easier if you let your venus fly trap catch its own prey. You can try small pinhead crickets they seem to work, but don't buy the crickets in those buckets. They are way too many of them for your venus fly trap, unless you have around 50 fly traps. =D HtH 08-20-2003, 08:29 PM #3 Ozzy View Profile View Forum Posts Visit Homepage SirKristoff is a poopiehead Join Date Jul 2001 Location Greenswamp, NC Posts 13,758 Mentioned 3 Post(s) Tagged 0 Thread(s) I'm moving this to the vft forum. « What is the difference between | Hello everyone » Tags for this Thread fly, flytrap, flytraps View Tag Cloud Posting Permissions You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts   BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On [VIDEO] code is On HTML code is On Forum Rules -- Dark Green SEO -- vB4 Default Style -- Default Mobile Style Contact Us TerraForums Carnivorous Plants Privacy Statement Terms of Service Top All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:40 AM. Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.5 Copyright © 2018 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All rights reserved. Search Engine Optimisation provided by DragonByte SEO (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2018 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. vBulletin Optimisation provided by vB Optimise (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2018 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. Shoutbox provided by vBShout (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2018 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2018 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. Feedback Buttons provided by Advanced Post Thanks / Like (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2018 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.

[Daniel]

ooh...don't feed your venus fly trap dead flies. After triggering the trigger hair, the fly will move inside of the venus fly trap telling the fly it caught a "live" insect, instead of other things that can trigger the hairs, such as a raindrop. And those flies you buy at pet stores are I think flightless fruitflies, they are very small, and I'll just think it might be easier if you let your venus fly trap catch its own prey. You can try small pinhead crickets they seem to work, but don't buy the crickets in those buckets. They are way too many of them for your venus fly trap, unless you have around 50 fly traps. =D

HtH

[Ozzy]

I'm moving this to the vft forum.