SAVE THE FLYTRAP MISSION
Take your plant out of the tube right away!
No tap water. Distilled or rain water only!
Questions from Preschoolers:
How do they catch bugs if the tube has a top on it?
If they eat bugs and are kept inside, is the house full of bugs?
What if they grow bigger than the tube?
Why do they come with the wrong directions? They will die!
The biggest question of all………
How do we save them?
4 plus hours of sun a day
repot in 50/50 mix of sphagnum peat moss and perlite
NO potting soil, fertilizer, or miracle-gro products.
Please DO NOT play with the traps!
What started as part of our Poison Garden project turned into something much bigger.
After learning about Venus flytraps, our preschoolers became curious—and concerned. They discovered that many of these plants are sold in stores but don’t survive because people don’t always have the right information.
So the children decided to take action to save the flytraps!
We are now on a Save the Flytrap Mission—creating care cards to put in stores that sell flytraps and sharing what we’ve learned to help these plants survive.
Our Mission
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How to Care for a Venus Flytrap
Needs 4–6+ hours of direct sunlight
Only use rainwater, distilled, or reverse osmosis water
Never use tap water
Keep soil damp using a water tray
Use peat moss / perlite mix (no potting soil, fertilizer, Miracle-gro products)
Do not trigger traps for fun
Take plant out of tube immediately