The sacrifice

[AzNsUShi41]

Last nyte i saw a fly on its way to die, the tired type that struggles to fly, i picked him on his wings and put him on my sundew ...

The next morning that SOB  

got away and i couldnt find the evidence of his body... the sundew curled but nothing was in it.

10min later i hear a buzz, and looked str8 to my plants and look wat i see..

SOB was laying eggs on my trap if u can his butt and maggots coming out,  

i was so pissed, cuz ive had maggots come out wen the fly is dead in the trap.

Anyways i tried to capture it with my tweezers but it had regain its strength and flew out side my room and on the sliding door and i swapped it with a newpaper.

Retreived the body to my sundew and put it where its suspose to b.
Now its dead laying here.

His flesh all over the place and waiting 4 the sundew to consume it!  

 

[Starman]

hehehehe, that will teach him!

 

[AzNsUShi41]

this is wat happened a day after

 

[AzNsUShi41]

i think this is the day after ...

 

[Jason Wong]

do any of you have bursts of sweet sadistic feelings while reading this? J/K

Mwhahahahaha...hah...ha...

 

[AzNsUShi41]

heres more sacrifises!
This fly was dead to begin with so, im not evil

it curled like this in like 2days

Zoom out..

As u can see the other sundew is still digesting the first fly i post up a week or so ago

MY windowsill is a bug's destiny

 

[The Griffin]

One can understand why some companies call D. capensis, "Octopus Plants".

Cheers,

Joe

 

[Jason Wong]

'The only good bug is a digested bug', a wise man once said.

 

[FlytrapGurl]

<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>To be continued...
again and again and again</span>

 

[Kirkscoastalcarnivores]

way to teach him!

 

[AzNsUShi41]

i fed a small fly to my small vft and it reopened twice, wtf/? can any1 tell me y? (i took the fly out and fed it to my sarrs)

 

[Jason Wong]

Too small maybe? Or maybe the fly was clever and understood the complex techniques of the venusian plant to open again when the trigger hairs aren't stimulated.

I highly doubt it though.

 

[AzNsUShi41]

the fly was dead

 

[diablothadragon]

Probably cuz the fly has to keep moving around to further stimulate the trigger hairs. And when its dead, it cant do that.

 

[AzNsUShi41]

yea i was thinking that, i tried to flick the trap to shake the carcass around

 

[Jason Wong]

Quote[/b] (AzNsUShi41 @ July 26 2004,1:23)]the fly was dead

That explains it then. The trigger hairs weren't stimulated often enough so the VFT opened again. Its a natural adaptation, as the VFT doesn't want to spend time and energy digesting, say a fallen raindrop whcih has stimulated it...but then on the down side it doesn't know when its being fed dead but nutritious prey.

 

[Jason Wong]

I think you would have to poke the trigger hairs continuously for a few mins b4 you can expect the trap to think its caught live prey. Captured prey usually move round a lot. Plus maybe its because the movements got to come from the inside to duplicate prey movement, don't know whether flicking the trap would work or not.

 

[AzNsUShi41]

i felt like i was beating my vft