You may have a new venus flytrap plant that you want to feed, but it may not be time. Many new flytrap owners want to feed their plant, and they panic wondering, “why wont the traps on my flytrap close? There are a few possible reasons.
The most common is that your flytrap just doesn’t need to eat. They are not plants that need to eat often. In fact, they can go a couple of months between meals. So, just wait a week and try again.
Is the meal alive? If you don’t have a live bug, the trigger hairs that are inside of each trap may not be triggered properly. Two hairs have to be triggered in a row for the trap to close. You can mimic this by gently moving a dead bug across the hairs with tweezers.
If you have made the traps close over and over just for fun, this may have poorly affected your plant. In fact, not only will the traps stop closing, your plant may die.
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