Yesterday I bought Mr. Man a Venus Fly Trap on a whim while at the grocery store. He has been checking out carnivorous plant books at the library, looking at them in nurseries, etc. Needless to say, he was ecstatic.I wanted to show the kids how the traps worked- when an insect touches the tiny hairs on the inside of the traps, it closes. So, when I hit and stunned a mosquito I thought "This is the perfect opportunity!"
I picked up the still-alive, but injured mosquito, and called the kids in. I dropped him into one of the traps. He didn't move enough at first to trigger the trap shut. We jiggled the jar and he crawled right out of the trap. So naturally, I picked him up again and set him back in the trap. He again crawled out- this time just in time not to be snapped up by the plant. This is not going well, I thought. So once more, I picked him up, put him in the trap, then used a knife to trigger the hairs and Snap! -mosquito trapped. The children were super excited - and me? I felt like I had committed mosquito murder!
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