Care Level: I'm Easy
Pet Friendly: Warning
Origins: North and South Carolina, USA
Fun Facts: Sometimes, bugs c...
Sometimes, bugs can bite back! Although rare, a Venus Flytrap can be killed by certain bugs that it trap!
Charles Darwin called the Venus flytrap “the most wonderful plant in the world”. Its Latin name Dionaea muscipula partly commemorates Venus, the goddess of beauty! These strange and eerie plants are easy and rewarding to grow! Just wait till you see one of these little babies catch their very first fly!
Care Level: I'm Easy
Pet Friendly: Warning
Origins: North and South Carolina, USA
Fun Facts: Sometimes, bugs c...
Sometimes, bugs can bite back! Although rare, a Venus Flytrap can be killed by certain bugs that it trap!
Try to place in full sun if possible, window sills in south-facing windows are best! Some traps will die back once first place in full sun but your plant will quickly grow more and thank you later!
The Venus Flytrap likes a lot of water. It's best to keep in a saucer with a little standing water so they never dry out. This will also raise the humidity around them, which they love! Using distilled, reverse osmosis or rain water is best.
Venus Flytraps love humidity. Sprits them with water every once in a while!
Average comfortable room temperatures will be sufficient!
Venus Flytraps typically do not need to be fertilized! They eat their food! If you notice your trap isn't catching any critters (lucky for you to have a bug free household), you can place bugs in traps. Those pesky flies you find outside will do the trick!
Browning and die-back of traps is totally normal! Prune these off and your plant will sprout new, beautiful traps.
For division, the plants are best divided in late winter to early summer. Offshoots are cut off the original plant, but one must make sure that the piece to be cut off has its own root system. Place divided part into separate container and voila!
Browning and dead traps are very normal! As long as you are providing your Venus Flytrap with enough light and water, it's fine! Remove these dead traps and new ones will grow back in no-time!
Absolutely! Sometimes it can be hard for your Venus Flytrap to get bugs inside since we spend a lot of time and effort keeping them out. It is fine to kill a bug and feed it. Your little baby will thank you!
They do! They digest them and use them as nutrients. The “trap” is made of two hinged lobes at the end of each leaf. On the inner surfaces of the lobes are hair-like projections called trichomes that cause the lobes to snap shut when prey comes in contact with them. This type of movement is called thigmonasty—a nondirectional plant response to being touched. How cool is that?
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