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My flytrap ate a small fly the other day. This morning, I found the trap had opened up again after eating the bug. The carcass is still in the trap. Should I remove it?
I usually carefully suirt the trap with a the stream part of the mist bottle. It works very well. I've only accidentally stimulated a trap once in 3 months. For some reason the last three traps caught flies really close to the edge of the leaf which makes it much easier to get them out.
It usually takes several hours for a trap to open up and reset itself, if you are lucky you can reach in (I use a very sharp tipped pair of tweezers) and remove the carcass before the trap is reset. They don't need to be removed though (nobody cleans them in the wild
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