Do Venus Fly Traps Eat Fruit Flies
The two most common ways of dealing with fruit flies in the house is to either use bait to trap the insect or use sticky traps to capture them.
Do venus fly traps eat fruit flies. If you own a plant with very tiny traps it may catch some fruit flies. Larger insects will cause. Venus Flytraps are carnivorous plants thus do not eat other plants or fruits.
The Venus flytrap or Dionaea muscipula is a well-known carnivorous plant. Venus flytraps consume fruit flies but they are not an effective pest control for this type of insect. A Venus Flytrap will catch fruit flies in your home.
Silly question I guess but do venus fly traps need to trap flies for nutrients. Should I feed my plant flies. Other carnivorous plants offer a better solution to control fruit flies gnats and other small insects.
Flytraps are adapted to catch insects for an additional source of nitrogen to use as building materials for their own leaves. The nectar is released onto its open traps. However my experience is that the nectar in a Venus fly trap has nothing on the intoxicating sweetness of an over-ripe banana.
The fruit flies are easily sprinkled into the traps for quick natural feeding. Do not feed your Venus fly trap meat. No I havent found Venus Fly Traps to be effective for much other than eating little pieces of raw hamburger or small young flies.
This plant will also feed on. Theyre not a good solution to fly control nor is any carnivorous plant really. As Andrew said any false positives require a lengthy recovery period.