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Do not feed your Venus' fly trap meat! Live prey, such as such as flies, spiders, crickets, slugs and caterpillars, are a Venus' fly trap's favorite food. No ants, please. Just a note: caterpillars may eat themselves out of the trap.
- What can you feed a Venus flytrap besides bugs?
- Can you feed a Venus flytrap dead bugs?
- What do Venus flytraps eat the most?
- Can you feed a Venus flytrap fruit?
What can you feed a Venus flytrap besides bugs?
Feed larger Venus flytrap leaves adult crickets, ants, small beetles, grasshoppers, spiders, millipedes, sowbugs and suitably sized slugs. In their native habitat, Venus flytraps don't often capture flies, but instead many kinds of crawling insects, such as beetles and ants.
Can you feed a Venus flytrap dead bugs?
What do Venus flytrap plants eat? The name says it all: Their main diet is flies (or other small insects). The trick is that the prey must be alive when caught. Dead flies won't work in Venus flytrap feeding; the insect must move around inside the trap to trigger it to close and begin digesting the food.
What do Venus flytraps eat the most?
The Venus flytrap gets some of its nutrients from the soil, but to supplement its diet, the plant eats insects and arachnids. Ants, beetles, grasshoppers, flying insects, and spiders are all victims of the flytrap.
Can you feed a Venus flytrap fruit?
Do not experiment with human food. Venus flytrap can digest candy, chicken, fruit, hamburgers, or any human food. Watch the leaves after feeding: After you feed a leaf, observe it for the next weeks. The plant will at least a week to digest the bug.
