Look what I picked up at Pino's the other day. A Venus Fly Trap!!!! And the card said it was from Colasanti's in Leamington - where I used to go quite often back in the day.
I got it home and made sure it was comfortable. It likes direct sun and to stay very moist as it's natural habitat is a bog. It seemed to be at home as a couple of it's "flowers" opened wide and I proceeded to stalk and stun a fly to feed it. I was on my hands and knees with tweezers in my hand under the chairs in the sun room retrieving my prize. I picked it up and as soon as I introduced the dazed but fully alive fly into an open mouth, it closed on the morsel. I have fed it three times and now I am going to let it rest and digest it's meals. I thought it would be easy finding food for it as we seem to get a lot of flies in the sun room. But as soon as I got my Fly Trap home, the flies disappeared. Figures!!
I hope it doesn't get too big ... I have small humans coming in July ...
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