Do I have to touch bugs?

You may be wondering if you have to touch live bugs.  Well, your flytrap really would prefer live bugs.  Surely you can find a fly or spider in your windowsill or outside.  Get yourself a pair of tweezers that will be used to pick up bugs to feed your venus flytrap.  Just be sure to hide them after you use them!  If someone in your household uses them for personal hygiene by accident, you will be in trouble!  And you are on your own with that problem!

If you must feed your flytrap dead bugs, you will have to wiggle them around a little.  This mimics the motion of a live bug that triggers the hairs inside the trap.  This makes it close.

Stay tuned for "What to Feed a Venus Flytrap" next time.

AN38NQEBD4TH

Basic Venus Flytrap Care Information

Basic Venus Flytrap Care Information

If you have just gotten or are going to get a Venus Flytrap, you are in luck!  They are one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow!  In fact, they do poorly when they are given too much attention. 

Venus flytrap plants thrive with:

• High Humidity.  If you keep your plants roots moist and make it a nice home in a terrarium, aquarium or fish bowl, this should create the perfect amount of humidity.  If you need more, just spray a fine mist of distilled water over your plant daily.  Make sure your container (terrarium) has a small opening for air to circulate. 
• Poor acidic soil.  Do not add fertilizer. 
• Full Sunlight 6-8 hours a day.  Be careful here.  If your Venus Flytrap starts to wilt, you may need to reduce the amount of hours it is in the sunlight.  Of course, this does not apply during dormancy.  
• Feed it a live bug (or a dead one, but you will have to mimic life) now and then.  Your flytrap may need one or two bugs a month, that is it. 

Stay tuned for more Venus Flytrap Care info.

Welcome!

Welcome to your new favorite blog!  If you are a new Venus Flytrap owner or want to get one, this is the place for you!  No overly technical articles that won't tell you the basics that you need to know just to get your plant going!  We speak in a way you can understand about a subject you love....VENUS FLYTRAPS!  Grab a cup of coffee or a soda and stick around a while!