digestiog really fast?

[yaric]

How come sometimes when my plant catched a bug it'll open back up only after like 2 or 3 days and then sometimes it'll open up after a week or more. Just the other day i found a small spider in my house so instead of killing it i fed it to the VFT. It closed up properly on the spider and the spider moved around a bit making the trap close completely. But only after I think it was 3 days the trap is open again. Did it just not like the spider or what?

On another note, the plant caught 3 other bugs by itself today. I was pretty impressed...

 

[poolboy101]

Well I am not as experienced as other people here, but I have noticed that the smaller the bug the shorter the digestion period.

 

[xvart]

Well I am not as experienced as other people here, but I have noticed that the smaller the bug the shorter the digestion period.

Sounds logical to me.

xvart.

 

[joossa]

Sounds logical to me.

xvart.

Ditto!

Also, I believe that the age of the trap might also affect the length of digestion. I have had an old trap on a plant catch a fly and take over two weeks to digest. Also, some old traps seem to begin digestion and after some time they turn black and die off instead of reopening.

 

[yaric]

Hm.. well it was a fairly new trap and the spider wasn't very big. So i guess that all contributed to a really fast meal.