Who catches more flies? Venus Fly Traps or Nepenthes Pitcher Plants?

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  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024

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  • @wellspringgardens
    @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

    What carnivorous plant - of any type - do you think is the most effective at catching bugs?

    • @NumaNumaLambChop
      @NumaNumaLambChop Місяць тому +2

      Sarracenias for the win

    • @Amongus-xh3rf
      @Amongus-xh3rf Місяць тому

      you forgot the nepenthes rajah!!!!!!!😠😠

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @@Amongus-xh3rf that one is seriously frightful!

    • @Droseraz_15
      @Droseraz_15 21 день тому

      Definitely Byblis and sundews. They are fly killing machines! The only downside is that sundews reproduce 10x faster that venus fly traps making them a weed for collections and Byblis are so rare (except austraila and southeast asia).

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  19 днів тому

      We might have to get into Byblis. Very cool carnivorous species!

  • @ArgentoNatsu
    @ArgentoNatsu 23 дні тому

    I bought my akai ryu from you guys two weeks ago and it makes me laugh that 1:00 one of these akai ryu might be the one at my house right now! Y'know where my perfectly biased bet goes! ❤

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  23 дні тому

      Your Akai Ryu definitely came from that batch right there! Who knows, we might’ve sent you the very one in the experiment!

  • @obambagaming1467
    @obambagaming1467 10 днів тому

    Once Nepenthes reach a certain size, they produce a different kind of pitcher than those closer to the ground.
    Those are usually a brighter yellow or green while many Nepenthes have usually lower pitchers that are more red.
    There are some other differences.
    The color and maybe even the nectar of the higher pitchers usually attract flying insects more, while the lower ones attract more crawling insects from the ground.
    Also I have made the experience that individual pitchers (even of the same plant) tend to produce way more nectar if they have caught something.
    This even works with fertilizer.
    My guess is that the trap waits with most of the nectar until it has caught enough to "know" that there are plenty of insects to catch, so they don't waste their nectar.

  • @cbreezesports
    @cbreezesports Місяць тому +2

    I’ve been wanting the answer to this question my whole life!

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому +1

      When I sit down to make a video, I first think “What would CBreeze want to see” and then I make that video

  • @swat3isharder
    @swat3isharder Місяць тому

    very informative for pest control at home.

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @@swat3isharder it helps to know which plant will catch which bug!

  • @SodaDinosaur31
    @SodaDinosaur31 Місяць тому +3

    8:12 It is in the name of science but still😢

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому +1

      I knew that part was going to get to you 😭. If it makes you feel better, we shot this video a few weeks ago and they all have grown new pitchers/traps

    • @SodaDinosaur31
      @SodaDinosaur31 Місяць тому

      ​@@wellspringgardens what was the box used in the video called? It looks cool 😎

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @ “mini reptile terrarium”

  • @Carnivorousplantsaus
    @Carnivorousplantsaus Місяць тому

    Also in 9:12 that pitcher hadn’t even opened so how could they be some inside it? It’s hurts me to see u kill the traps I knwo it’s for the experiment but it just 😢

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому +1

      @@Carnivorousplantsaus that’s fair. I was probably moving along too fast. That one could definitely have been spared

  • @DoctorDerpman
    @DoctorDerpman Місяць тому

    Now I'm waiting for the Sarracenias vs Sundews vid, and the restock. 👀

  • @LifeofKusa
    @LifeofKusa Місяць тому +2

    Your plants too tiny

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому +1

      @@LifeofKusa yeah, they would’ve performed better if they were more mature

  • @cadenbailey-d9g
    @cadenbailey-d9g Місяць тому

    by the way you should change the name from alata to ventrata cause you might get bad ratings but i still love the quality

    • @SodaDinosaur31
      @SodaDinosaur31 Місяць тому

      Yeah I bought an "alata" but it was a ventrata from what I saw but overall experience from them 9/10

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      I know it probably seems like your comments are falling upon deaf ears, but I promise I’m going to make a video about the Alata vs Ventrata vs Ventricosa soon.

  • @Mobile-Zero-Exploiter
    @Mobile-Zero-Exploiter Місяць тому

    Is that chomper from plant vs zombie

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      It looks like it, doesn’t it? Nah, they’re stock images

  • @Carnivorousplantsaus
    @Carnivorousplantsaus Місяць тому

    Whyyyyyyy you could just look with a light through the plants traps

  • @Cornz38
    @Cornz38 Місяць тому

    Neither. My Saracenia Flava are constantly overflowing with flies in the summer months (UK).

  • @frostylonewolf1700
    @frostylonewolf1700 Місяць тому

    to let ya know i'm more careful now cause it got a bit too cold at night inside greenhouse on a night, banana leaves got more brown not good

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @@frostylonewolf1700 that’s good. Just do you know, my next video is going to be a cold-prep vid. Stay tuned!

    • @frostylonewolf1700
      @frostylonewolf1700 Місяць тому

      @@wellspringgardens its 42 rn inside the greenhouse, 34 outside

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @ you just gotta keep them from freezing. So far so good

    • @frostylonewolf1700
      @frostylonewolf1700 Місяць тому

      @@wellspringgardens well yeah but its gotta be like 50's to 60 for them to grow the bananas

    • @frostylonewolf1700
      @frostylonewolf1700 Місяць тому

      @@wellspringgardens sad news it might get down to 30 to 31 tonight inside greenhouse, its 34 inside rn

  • @TwilightVaramek
    @TwilightVaramek Місяць тому

    i had a massive fungas knat infestation comeing out of a lot of my other plants and fliies as well i dont have flytraps havent had the money for any at the moment but i have 8 different types of nepenthes a butterwort and three sundews between all of them the sundews cought the most there were so many fiungas knats that every single leaff was just coverd in black specs afer a bout a week i used my mister to wash the dew off and clean the leaves snese in nature the rain does that and that allowerd them to last longer and not be overwelmed as well

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому +1

      If we made a video comparing all types of carnivorous plants, and all bugs counted the same, I think the Sundews would be clear winner. They really are so effective at taking out gnats. I call them nature's fly paper.

    • @TwilightVaramek
      @TwilightVaramek Місяць тому

      @@wellspringgardens yea they are amazing i only have three cus 2when i orderd one of them a year ago the amazon seller send me 2 by accident and one had babys in it so i just pintched them out and put them in a seperat pot full of moss and its really pretty

    • @wellspringgardens
      @wellspringgardens  Місяць тому

      @ Score! Three for the price of one! Not too shabby