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Hello all. Recently it seems that something has been attacking my one pot of flytraps. At first I thought they were just suffering from sunburn like the Drosera filiformis it shares the pot with, but after something destroyed one of the traps, I became more concerned. My first thought was earwigs, because I have a Sarracenia Purpurea nearby that is almost ready to fall over from how many it's eaten. This problem also only seems to be affecting this particular plant, as all my other flytraps are growing much more upright compared to these. Any idea if this is the problem or how I can fix it? Thanks!

Looks like damage from a large animal, perhaps a bird or squirrel or cat.

Looks like cat damage to me. My first ever vft looked like that. I had a cat at the time that would eat ANY plant in the house, including large-spined cacti. The traps looked just like that after he got ahold of it.

Thanks, I put my plants farther out of reach of my cats (I thought they were fine where they were, but you know cats). So far I haven't seen any more damage.

I had this happen to me when I used to live in a unit, it looks like a bird has been pecking at it they know that there are insects are in it.