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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have searched here and with google for a while and couldn't find it.
My fly traps have some red-brown spots on them and chunks of the traps are missing. This happened a few months ago as well, but it went away after I sprayed it a couple of times with neem oil. This time, the neem doesn't seem to be helping. This problem started almost two weeks ago after two days of consecutive rain. I live in Oklahoma and keep the fly traps outside all the time. I water from the top with Ozarka spring water (according to this: https://www.nestle-watersna.com/asset-l ... /O_ENG.pdf, it seems that it has a ppm of 33-110), so I guess I should find something else to water with. Any suggestions or help is much appreciated!

The easiest option would to get distilled water from a place like walmart. I would flush really well with the distilled water to help get rid of the desolated salts that have built up!




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spring water still has minarils in it. Distilled,rain or RO water. Tap if its below 50 PPM TDS.

Use RO water or rain works best

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So you guys are saying that it's mineral burn?

Looks like some bird or insect damage and some old traps dying off from age.

ScoobyDoom wrote:So you guys are saying that it's mineral burn?

Not exactly it could be other things as well

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Thanks for your suggestions, but I'm currently thinking that it is anthracnose.