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Started taking care of VFT couple of months back on the 1st month everything is doing great got my 1st two VFT to produce health and active leaves but after a couple of month i notice that my VFT is getting smaller and producing inactive traps, after a few weeks after some of the old leaves dry out and new leaves started get smaller and the VFT started to die and when i hold and pull the leaves i can see that there are small insect crawling on the roots I'm not sure if that is the one causing my VFT to dry out and die? right now my 2 new VFT is suffering the same fate cause i notice that they producing smaller traps and those traps are all inactive. any good suggestion on how i can save my VFT?

sounds like a mite. use neem oil

Can you post some photos? It would be far easier to diagnose any problems with a clear photo of the plant or plants in question.

what i did today is i put my VFT on water and after a few seconds i notice that there are white small insect floating on the water and the seems to be jumping is it a spring tail? sorry i can't take a picture because it's too small for my camera to focus on. the the white insect seems to be floating and jumping on water..