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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They can live, but they can’t thrive.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just looked up the other day how to take care of the venus flytrap my sun insisted we buy. It said it needs poor soil, do not fertilize it, and that they get their nutrients from their prey (and should be fed if kept indoors).

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re a huge pain in the ass to take care of. Ours died because it got rained on

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Plant it in peat moss mixed with sand and only water with distilled water or rainwater. It needs a lot of light too, so keep it near a south facing window

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    • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I keep mine in sphagnum moss, and water it with distilled water.

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This makes me wonder: if you give them nicer soil than they evolved in, can they still use those nutrients instead, or do they require insects to survive now?

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    • Dagamant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nope, it kills them because they cant handle all the extra stuff

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They really don’t care where the nutrients come from. However they take very little to keep going for a long time.

      Cell biologist I worked with tested tested this one.

      He placed 10 small plants into sterile agar made with diluted Hoagland’s solution. He then sealed the petri dishes with petrifilm (gas permeable). Then placed them under a low light (4 T12’s at 20cm and a 12 hour photoperiod).

      He started them about 5 years before I met him. We worked together for 11 years and he never lost a plant.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess this depends on if they lost functional roots or not. If they are like bromeliads that lost water uptake in their roots (which instead take up water and nutrients through trichomes in their tank) then they probably don’t care about how much nutrients are in the soil. I’d think that as most bromeliads are epiphytes without any real type of soil that that is the reason they lost this functionality. And that many species of carnivorous plants are usually just growing in nutrient-poor soils. So eating animals would just be a way to get more/sufficient nutrients but that it might be still useful for them to have functional roots.

      But this is only speculation. Maybe someone else has more tangible info?

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And sometimes, just sometimes, deer eat meat. Nature is wild.

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve seen a horse eat a duckling.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Butterflies can drink sweat and blood

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  • Collatz_problem@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great tits sometimes hunt bats and eat their brains.

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• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  doesn’t it have to get minerals or something from the insects it eats? if you fertilize them they’ll die

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was always told that the traps die but the plant lives on if it’s getting enough from the soil.

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• Collatz_problem@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They live on nitrogen-poor soil and eat insects to cope with it.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no free will. And Venus Flytrap’s privilege and intersectionality is what forms them.

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• starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i mean, do you always choose the vegan option?

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look ma! The plants are just like me!

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  intrusive thoughts

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a pitcher plant hanging on my back deck. Its incessant thirst for flesh amuses me.

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