Venus Fly Trap - It's Feeding Time!

In this video, I talk a bit about my collection of Venus Fly Traps that was started in 1996. These plants are carnivorous and eat a variety of insects in order to maintain their full vigor. I will feed some insects to the plants and then I will set some traps off so that you can see how fast they close. These plants are quiet unusual and are only found, in the wild, in a couple of southern (USA) States.

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Science & Technology

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• Venus Fly Trap
• Venus Fly Trap - Feeding
• Venus Fly Trap Closing
• Venus Fly Trap Catching Insect

[iAnthrit]

Can the plant live indoors with other plants. Would this help take down them little flys that are taking over the house?

[jfnuyen]

@iAnthrit They are really out door plants and they require a dormancy period like Northern trees do. All mine grow outdoors.

[16rmegan]

So do you have to feed every trap? or can you just feed like 5 and the whole plant is fed?

[jfnuyen]

@16rmegan No, I never feed them. They are outside all summer long and they are designed by nature to lure and catch their own insects, which they do. Remember, since they are green plants, most of their nutrients are produced via photosynthesis just as the grass and trees do. They catch insects to supplement their need for nitrogen and phosphorus which is lacking in the soil that they are adapted to survive in. If they fail to catch enough insects, they rely on their use of the sun.

[Joshuabrutl]

Do you have feed them all ?

[jfnuyen]

@Joshuabrutl No, I never feed them. They are outside all summer long and they are designed by nature to lure and catch their own insects, which they do. Remember, since they are green plants, most of their nutrients are produced via photosynthesis just as the grass and trees do. They catch insects to supplement their need for nitrogen and phosphorus which is lacking in the soil that they are adapted to survive in. If they fail to catch enough insects, they rely on their use of the sun.

[jfnuyen]

@N1gHtStAlKeR726 Not once you know the secrets to their particular horticultural needs.

[N1gHtStAlKeR726]

@jfnuyen is it hard to keep them alive?

[jfnuyen]

@TheAgent3000 Thanks for the offer, but I have all that I can handle now. lol

[jfnuyen]

@N1gHtStAlKeR726 I started in 1996 with about 10 plants. Over the years they have expanded, as all plants seem to do, whether by seed or just widening of the rhizome.