If you grow your plants outside, the answer to your question is never. They will catch all the food the need on their own. I was skeptical of this myself when I started growing Venus Fly Traps, but in fact it is rare to see an open trap! They are very good at luring and capturing their own food.

If you grow your plant inside, or if you just can't stand the temptation, feeding them a couple of insects a month would be sufficient...after all, it is so much fun to watch those traps slam closed! Under no circumstances should you feed your Venus Fly Trap any kind of people food. This will be very harmful to the plant and kill the trap that you feed the food to. Hamburger, pork, chicken, pasta, potato chips, avocado are all not on the menu for Venus Fly Traps. Venus Fly Traps are insectivorous plants, which means they only eat insects. So, feel free to feed them ants, spiders, earwigs, flies, or any other creepy crawly that you can catch!

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written by tosha, May 16, 2008

can i feed it worms? if i dont feed it will it die?

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worms may work
written by Matt, May 16, 2008

You can try worms, but I haven't personally done that. You're better off sticking with insects. I have read that people feed Venus Fly Traps maggots, which is kind of like a worm, but it's safer to stay with insects.

No, if you don't feed your Venus Fly Trap it will be fine. Just give it plenty of sunlight, and clean water.

Good luck with your new plant!

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written by Richard, June 22, 2008

Should I remove old dead insect corpses after the trap has reopened or just leave them?
Cheers,
Richard.

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written by Matt, June 23, 2008

You can remove them if you'd like, but it is usually better to just leave them. Sometimes the corpses of the dead insects will attract a second meal for the trap, such as an ant or a spider coming in to try to eat the corpse.

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i bought a small fish tank
written by nicole, July 12, 2008

I bought a small fish tank with the pebble catch on the bottom.. to have water under the plant for humidity (indoor plant). I was wondering if buying the tank was a good idea beings as it need a dense amount of humidity?

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written by mat blades, August 16, 2008

if you have 4 or 5 Venus fly traps and you feed a bug just to one of them would it be o.k to feed bugs to all of them? j.d

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written by Matt, August 16, 2008

I assume what you mean is that you have one venus fly trap plant with 4 or 5 traps. If that's the case, it would probably be overkill to feed all the traps at once. Most growers agree that 1 or 2 bugs a month is sufficient.

If you mean you have 4 or 5 different plants, you can feed all of them a couple bugs a month.

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my venus fly trap
written by Oscar, October 31, 2008

hey my name is oscar and i wanted to say that i bought a venus fly trap in food lion on Oct. 28,2008 and the next day i found a mosquito and fed it to my fly trap and i wont shut it's mouth to eat it and none of my traps are opening their mouths so only one is barely shutting and the others wont open their mouths can you e-mail me back if you have a solution.

Thanks...

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written by alejandro, November 08, 2008

i have a question you said to feed them once a month what happens if i feed them more often and if i can when please get back to me ASAP its for a science fair project

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What thing that venus trap can eat
written by Ryan Martin, November 09, 2008

Hey can my venus trap eat maggot worm??

because i start worry i bought it yeasterday it never open yet

can you help me??

ryan martin

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Re: What thing that venus trap can eat
written by Matt, November 09, 2008

It's best to only feed your venus fly trap things that it would catch in the wild. I don't think maggots would hurt it, but this is something that it likely wouldn't catch in the wild.

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