Feeding time!
To mimic the normal treatment Venus flytraps receive in the home, I caught a few flies today and fed them to each of our test plants. Regular house flies were used. I used a pair of tweezers to place the flies in the traps and quickly removed the tweezers as the trap closed. The flies were 4-5 mm in length.
The video below is of the tap water plant being fed. This particular fly caused many problems for us, as it kept launching off before I could grab it with the tweezers. However some deft tweezer saved the day and the plant eventually got fed! For information about manual feeding of flies, please visit our ‘manual feeding‘ page.
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