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My Venus flytrap just ate an ant and when it opened up the hairs on the inside had weird circles of green while the rest of the inside of the trap was red. What does this mean?

Hard to visualize what you're describing. Can you post a photo?

The trap containing the ant’s exoskeleton is the one that I’m talking about.

Don’t know for sure but ants can squirt formic acid which it may have done prior to dying, burning the plant a little?
Cheers
Steve

Don’t know for sure but ants can squirt for ice acid which it may have done prior to dying, burning the plant a little?
Cheers
Steve

What do you think I should do? And also why isn’t the smaller trap pink?

Yeah what you said makes a lot of sense especially because I feed it an ant I found in some wood, and wood ants are known to use formic acid against predators. Do you know what will happen to the plant?

Bob wrote:Yeah what you said makes a lot of sense especially because I feed it an ant I found in some wood, and wood ants are known to use formic acid against predators. Do you know what will happen to the plant?

Worst case is that the trap dies (aka turns black).
The plant itself will be fine.

No worries.

Thanks for the help!