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Natural habitat#64211

By Detsawm -  Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:56 am
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- Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:56 am #64211

I was just curious if anyone knows what insects the remaining wild VFTs eat the most? (E.g. a particular fly, ants or anything else etc)

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Re: Natural habitat#64263

By Aging_Bourbon -  Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:42 pm
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- Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:42 pm #64263

I would say Flys, Ant's pretty much any insect native to the US in the southern states. Try Google, it works miracles

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Re: Natural habitat#64280

By SDCPs -  Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:02 am
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- Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:02 am #64280

It depends on the vft. The young ones subsist on a diet of small ants, soil gnats, springtails...the bigger ones get flies and crawling bugs. I have heard that flies are the main prey of adult flytraps, but crawling insects get caught too.

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Re: Natural habitat#64299

By Detsawm -  Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:51 am
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- Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:51 am #64299

Ok cool, I just wasn't sure because obviously it's called the Venus FLY Trap but with it being so low to the ground I figured it would have naturally caught more crawling insects than flies. Do they attract with smell as well or is it purely visual?

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