The Venus flytrap is native to the bogs and swamplands of North and South Carolina. The Venus fly traps prey is limited to beetles, spiders and other crawling arthropods. Its normal diet is 33% ants, 30% spiders, 10% beetles, and 10% grasshoppers, with fewer than 5% flying insects. The lobe manufactures digestive juices and an antiseptic juice. This keeps the insect from decaying over the few days it is in the trap and purifies prey that it captures. The bugs can bite back! In the springtime, the Venus Fly Trap can be killed by the very insects it eats. Aphids can infect the plant and slowly kill it. Also, grasshoppers and caterpillars can eat parts of the plant, but this is uncommon. If one of these insects is bigger than a third of the size of the trap, it can cause severe leaf burn, stressing and killing it while the plant tries to devour it. Venus Fly Traps are health nuts. If you feed it a hamburger, the protein and fat-based meat will rot the plant, eventually killing it.
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