Submitted 17 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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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…
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)
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)
That just sounds like you're trying to build an ecosystem.
My neighbor told me carnivorous plants keep eating his lady bugs so I asked how many bugs he has and he said he just goes to the store and gets a new bug afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding lady bugs to plants and then his daughter started crying.
The nymphs would eat the most aphids.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 45 minutes ago
aren’t ladybugs invasive :(