• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 hours ago

    years ago we had some annoying flies in the office and I suggested that we could get some carnivorous plants. Mainly just to see if it would do anything. And I wanted to see them in action.

    A couple days later, I watch some flies walk along the rim of the pitcher plant, and across the inner side of the venus trap. Basically humping the trigger hairs.

    You had one job, plants…

    • drive_desaster@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      I just bought a Venus fly trap for the office today and already had success, even managed to film the fly getting caught (to be fair though, I caught the fly in a glass first)

    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 hours ago

      If the fly is small enough (like gnat size) the venus fly trap might not even recognize it. That’s usually when sticky traps are better (like sundew)