What is wrong with my venus fly trap?

I don’t think so, but you have to have a small enough bug land in just the right spot for it to feed. If the bug is too big, it’ll get out. In the meantime, you could feed it ants, or maybe a spider, etc. just to get things going.

It’s not a myth. (You can see a gif here)

Carnivorous plants are evolutionarily selected to live in harsh environments in soil with poor nutrients. In a kitchen, there are many, many, many more interesting surfaces to attract insects. Many hobbyists actually feed their plants.

They are rather notoriously difficult to keep happy since it takes a concerted effort to reproduce their natural environment.

As an aside, this is a threatened plant that is often illegally gathered, and buyers should always check that the plant has produced through tissue culture.

Sounds like a lot of big bugs. The heads are small and they can’t catch anything that can’t be completely enclosed within the head. Besides it won’t necessarily catch everything – just the bugs that are dumb enough to walk into it. It requires luck and time.

@Mariah and @snowberry and @syz They have just had two moths for dinner. Courtesy of me!

It may be a vegetarian.

Is this another one of those double entendre’s?

Fun fact Venus Fly Traps are endemic to North Carolina. I always imagined them growing in some crazy rain forest somewhere, not the swamp lands of NC…

@LornaLove You can feed them but don’t touch them to see them close. It wears them out and they die. Been there done that. They’re native to the peat bogs of NC so try to create that environment.