- Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:20 pm
#170060
Sorry for posts so close together :/
I only got one response from my last post, so I thought maybe more people would read this.
So since its still cold out here, in Kentucky, bugs haven't really come out to play with my plants yet. Since I bet my plants were hungry after a long dormancy period, I came up with an idea: I bought wax worms (aka fishing bait lol) to feed my Venus flytraps, and my pitcher plant. Are these a good source of nutrients to the plants, or should I buy a different kind of bugs. I thought that unlike crickets, the wax worms wouldn't jump all over the place, and are relatively weak.
Unfortunately, after feeding some of the wax worms to my Venus flytrap, I found that after the trap had closed around them, that some had managed to force their way out of the traps! I decided that if this continues to happen, I will have to puncture the skin of the wax worm with a needle, gently, to merely incapacitate it, and not kill it, so that when I put it in a trap, it will squirm and not escape. I have not had any problems feeding them to my pitcher plant, which drowns them almost immediately.
Any hints or tips?
I only got one response from my last post, so I thought maybe more people would read this.
So since its still cold out here, in Kentucky, bugs haven't really come out to play with my plants yet. Since I bet my plants were hungry after a long dormancy period, I came up with an idea: I bought wax worms (aka fishing bait lol) to feed my Venus flytraps, and my pitcher plant. Are these a good source of nutrients to the plants, or should I buy a different kind of bugs. I thought that unlike crickets, the wax worms wouldn't jump all over the place, and are relatively weak.
Unfortunately, after feeding some of the wax worms to my Venus flytrap, I found that after the trap had closed around them, that some had managed to force their way out of the traps! I decided that if this continues to happen, I will have to puncture the skin of the wax worm with a needle, gently, to merely incapacitate it, and not kill it, so that when I put it in a trap, it will squirm and not escape. I have not had any problems feeding them to my pitcher plant, which drowns them almost immediately.
Any hints or tips?
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