Rose,
I have no idea what a brita water filter is sorry.
The best thing to do, is to flush the plant with as much water as possible to rinse out any nasty fertlizers. If you don’t have a large quantity of suitable water, then you may be best of placing it under a tap, flushing the heck out of it with tap water, then putting some clean water through afterwards to rinse out the tap water.

Amy,
Yes a venus flytrap can eat a lady bug. They’re a bit hard, kinda like ants in that way, but they’re insect so will do the trick. You probably find most of the shell left in the trap once it opens.

Patrick,
A reptile UV light would not be much good either. You will probably just bake your plant. Plants operate by absorbing light and oddly enough the range of light they absorb is smack bang in the middle of the photospectrum of the sun! This is why plants are usually green as that is the middle of the suns photospectrum. UV light is much higher energy than visible or IR light, so is far more likely to burn/bake your plant much like it does to humans. Reptiles require the heat from the UV lamp to stay warm, this doesn’t apply to plants though.

Luis,
I don’t understand your question. The leaves are the trap.

Cj,
No they don’t ‘require’ light during dormancy, however they apparently cope better if they do receive some light. If you place your plant in the fridge, then it will be in total hibernation and others have reported problems when they have placed their plant this deep into dormancy AND given it light. The temperature should be somewhere below 10 deg. C, although you can get away with higher temperatures often.

Mark Paling,
I use tweezers to remove skeletons. Just don’t poke the plant that’s all.

Your Aunt’s plant should be fine hopefully. Traps often die and turn black for no apparent reason and sometimes it happens before they open for the first time. This may be signal that the plant is not happy, but it is probably not a dire situation. Many of my traps do this from time to time.

Amac,
It sounds like you are panicing too much! I need more information about the environment of the plant to help. In particular what part of the world you are in as it may just be a dormancy issue you are seeing.

Homer,
The plant will be fine. Traps shut and close all the time and the plant can survive for a VERY long time (ie: many years) without any food whatsoever. The food just allows the plant to grow a little faster that’s all.

Justin,
Why did you cut the leaves off? How did bacteria get on your plant.

Excessive heat will definitely kill it as the leaves/soil will dry out.

KT,
Sorry, but I’m not sure about flea actually, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before.

Polly,
Yes you are doing the right thing. If you want to see it catch some bugs then catch some and dump them in the pot. They will eventually get munched down by the plant

DiCE6,
If the plant is in dormancy then you are better of leaving it there.

mystic man1
There is lots of information about your question throughout this site. Please check there.

Pollen? Does it have a flower? Or do you mean there is no pollen in the trap? There will never be pollen in the trap unless it falls there from a flower.

Tania,
No they shouldn’t be turning yellowish. That sounds like there is a problem. How moist is the soil?

I just bought it from the store and it looked gren and health when i bought it and for two days it looked ok but then i noticed that the leaves were turning brown ad had some black. it has plenty of water(Purified)i may of over feed it and i cut the leaves of so that it with not create in bacteria and i was wondering if it is overfeed will it grow new leaves.

P.S. Can to much heat kill it even though it has plenty of water.

Thanks
Justin