Venus Flytrap - Dionaea

Hi all,

Perhaps for the reason I want one*, every garden centre I've checked is out of Venus flytraps at the moment.

Does anyone know of a source of one or perhaps have one i could get a cutting of one?

*Reason: flies are really terrible this year. Tiny ones, they seem to be everywhere. While typing this, two have drowned in my whiskey.

Tree

So bad news, they're rubbish for fruit flies, they're too small to trigger the hairs. In the kitchen we've a nepenthes, dionaea, sarracenia and a stray drosera growing in the venus flytrap pot. We've also got fruit files that love wine...

I'd suggest ringing around. We got our last one in a homebase, it needs splitting and potting on, and if you're in Limerick you could be in luck. Though usually I don't pot them on till the spring.

Tree

Tree wrote: »

So bad news, they're rubbish for fruit flies, they're too small to trigger the hairs. In the kitchen we've a nepenthes, dionaea, sarracenia and a stray drosera growing in the venus flytrap pot. We've also got fruit files that love wine...

I'd suggest ringing around. We got our last one in a homebase, it needs splitting and potting on, and if you're in Limerick you could be in luck. Though usually I don't pot them on till the spring.

Thanks for the advice. I suspected this issue with them being so small was going to be a problem. I created a trap with apple cider vinegar covered by a spiders web and the damn things are too small, and keep getting through the webbing drinking the vinegar and flying away again.

Tree

I mean, flytraps are fabulous plants, they just don't catch that many flies

Drosera are cool and a bit better at grabbing small flies. I put some next to a greenfly infestation and while they did great the greenflies were reproducing faster

fryup

irish flies don't seem to be attracted to them for some reason?

greasepalm

Do you you grow many pot plants in PEAT as those dam flies love them.
Moth balls any good?

greasepalm

greasepalm wrote: »

Do you you grow many pot plants in PEAT as those dam flies love them.
Moth balls any good?

Currently, just one or two.

Is this year a bad year for fruit flies as my dad has an infestation also?

Perhaps, damp warm weather?

Markcheese

With the vinegar traps just put a drop (literally a drop) of washing up liquid into the vinegar , it breaks the surface tension and the fruit flies sink ...