Dionaea muscipula
Venus Fly Trap
Early Spring 2023
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Dionaea muscipula
Early Spring 2023
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Early Spring 2023
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The flowers just keep on coming!
Late Winter 2023
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#whiteflowers

Pretty flowers to lure prey
Late Winter 2023
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#houseplants #foliagefriday
Late Winter 2023
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Late Winter 2023
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Fully bloomed out!

Wow, first time for me to see that. #carnivorousplant

Cute! Mines produced another flower stem, so I’m letting it do it’s thing rather than cutting it off like the last one.

It’s awesome!!! 💚🤍💚

I didn’t know they flowered!! How cool!!! And how pretty 🤩 @emch

You might want to feed it a mealworm or so, @sieveheadsarah !
Late Winter 2023
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In full bloom!!! Color me astounded that it came to this...
Late Winter 2023
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WE HAVE LIFTOFF. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

Wowwwwww! 🚀

Wow never seen them flower!!

Awesome flowers. 🤍

WooHoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

Wonderful!

👏🏼👏🏼
Late Winter 2023
16

In one of the week's most #curiouscases I found yesterday that one of the traps had sprung open, revealing an untouched mealworm inside.

I have this image now of it trying to spit it out!

Exactly, @richard.spicer.7906
Late Winter 2023
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If you look at the center of the plant, you can see a second flower stem emerging! #anticipation
Late Winter 2023
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Either these bloom VERY briefly, or the first bud rotted. Never mind, there are more buds warming up in the bullpen #anticipation
Mid Winter 2023
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Any time now #anticipation
Mid Winter 2023
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...and closer #anticipation
Mid Winter 2023
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#terrarium
Mid Winter 2023
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You've all seen a lot of my only #terrarium lately, but since GT asked specifically, here's another inaction photo of the flower stem on my Venus Flytrap... #anticipation
Mid Winter 2023
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#yum
Mid Winter 2023
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Those buds are enlarging and getting branchier by the day... #anticipation
Mid Winter 2023
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Today's bold experiment. After learning that I can only buy live mealworms in large and king-size, 100 at a time, I learned online that I can use the dried kind if I rehydrate them. Made a nice hot cup of larva tea and fed 1 or 2 to each plant. (To my surprise I seem to have 3.) We'll see how this goes. #geniushacks
Mid Winter 2023
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Flower bud!!! Color me astonished!

Wow!!! That’s fantastic!!! I can’t wait to see the flower! @emch

I chopped mine off Eileen

I know, @sieveheadsarah but I am going to supply my plant with more mealworms so I can see those flowers!

Does it not eat when flowering? I'm impressed with this one. They are notoriously hard to keep alive! What's your magic??

I’m looking forward to seeing the flowers Eileen

@KariSamuel I just kept both flytraps in the pots they came in, plunked them in a fishbowl lined with charcoal, surrounded them with soaked sphagnum moss, and covered most of the opening at the top with clingfilm. A shot of repellent kept the kittehs out of it. After that, distilled water and mealworms...

Live meal worms? I had a coworker in the vet industry, who had multiple large parrots in their home & she RAISED meal worms! Well, had a meal worm farm under her sink. It was oddly satisfying to see! 🐛 @emch

I don't think dead mealworms would trigger the traps properly, @KariSamuel

So I wondered! 🤔 Wigglers!
Early Winter 2023
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#foliagefriday
Late Summer 2022
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Each closed trap has a mealworm... #curiouscases
Late Summer 2022
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Suppertime for the ladies...the closed trap in the center is digesting already but the mealworm just underneath is refusing to walk, which is what triggers the trap to close... #curiouscases #exoskeletal passive resistance
Late Spring 2022
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Better shot of the terrarium #curiouscases

Very cool!! I want to try these.

@cheriej I have succeeded at last with these by keeping it simple. I put them in the pots they came in into a big fishbowl with a layer of stones at the bottom. Soaked some sphagnum moss with distilled water and packed it around the pots. Stretched clingfilm across the top and spritzed that with kitteh repellent. This is the first time I have been able to keep them alive. RIP sundew plant from GrowIt that came in the mail with the green Venus Flytrap 😢

Great!! I’m keeping the instructions, I really want to try them. Do you feed them bugs? Or are they good without? @emch

The greenie was good for a year plus without bugs. I fed each one a mealworm a week or so ago @cheriej and they immediately started putting out new traps...

Mealworms are a great idea! I already have them for the Bluebirds.
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A little distorted by the fishbowl #native #curiouscases #foliagefriday
Mid Spring 2022
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Kitteh broke into the terrarium and yanked the plants out of position so many times that I finally went to the pet store for kitteh repellent. That appears to have worked... #crimescene #geniushacks

What is the repellent?

@heatherdirtyhands it's called Keep Off! Cat and Kitten Repellent. Made by Four Paws, a brand we always trusted at the pet store where I used to work ages ago. It's still working today!
Mid Spring 2022
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Crude but effective: clingfilm over the top of the fishbowl to keep the humidity high.
Mid Spring 2022
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It's hard to find leaves more interesting than these... #foliagefriday #curiouscases #native

I love mine !
Mid Spring 2022
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New terrarium
Huge new trap emerging #interestingfoliage #newgrowth