Last week Paige and I went shopping for a Venus flytrap. Yes, because we wanted it to kill flies for us. No, we don't have that many flies, but why spend energy killing them when God designed a plant to do it for you?
Anyhow, I have absolutely no idea how to judge if a Venus flytrap is a real killer. We spent a good while in the aisleway looking at each one and wondering "is this one more vicious or is that one?" It felt like we were picking out a pit bull for dogfights.
posted by Max Lybbert at 9:50 AM
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We went and picked out the flytrap from Wal-mart. They had two brands of flytraps and one brand had a lot of the plant turning black. We chose a nice green healthy looking one from the better brand. When we got home Max stuck the back of a spoon in one and it snapped down. A day later our flytrap caught a fly. I think it was a candle fly. Unfortunately that part of the plant is now turning black either from the fly or the Wal-mart disease.
Yeah, we'll need to pick another killer soon. Our first one didn't do it's job.
But I'm a softie at heart, so I'm glad I don't have to beat the poor thing into being real vicious.
Paige did some research and determined that our killer flytrap requires something like slowly melted pure glaciar water. If I'd wanted a pansy, I would have bought a different plant!
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