it will most likely rot the trap off. do you have a pic of that?

ill try and get a pic of it today

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part of me is saying "poor lizard" and part of me wants to give the plant a treat.

I've heard that the CPs where I give a few hours a week have occasionally caught a lizard but I haven't seen it happen. (and it's the Nepenthes they're refering to not the fly traps, that's gotta be rare to say the least. LOL maybe the lizard had a little heart attack when the plant bit back and that's how it got caughts hehe) I have some pics of the plants if anyone is interested... (easier just to link ya to my site)

Here is a link that might be useful: Tangled Web of Aracknight

That's gross!! I'm a newbie and I'm not sure this hobby is for me. I was going to post a question about my little VFT closing on an ant with half of the ant sticking out struggling. I bought one to put around my orchids hoping they would catch some fungus gnats, but they are too slow. So I've been sticking ants in the traps, but the ants start getting out of the traps before the trap closes. So half the bug is stuck inside. I've see the ant struggling hours later trying to get out. Gross! Why are these traps so slow??
Jane

Would guess that was an unusual event. Lizard may have already been weakened by illness.

Jane, speed of trap closure can be affected by temperature. Also not closing with a "snap" can allow time for prey that is too small to be worth eating to get away.

thanks Paul, it was a nice fat ant. The trap just took so long to close and it kept getting out. Then I sort of squashed it a bit and put it back in and it finally closed, but this morning, the ant was still alive. Maybe it is the cool weather.
Jane

Another reason that traps close slowly coud be a lack of humidity on the pots. I have all my VFT sitting on a tray of water and the majority of prey from my small VFT catches are ants and fruitflies and they all close with a snap.

Now, I've heard large VFT capturing small froglets in their traps and even small geckos. So this may not be a rare event in their habitat. You just got ucky to witness something that occure normally in the wild. Still i think the trap is going to rot away too.

my VFT caught a lizard this past weekend. should i cut the trap off before it kills the whole VFT?

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I saw a small lizard down inside on of my pitcher plants this weekend, but I think he may have just waiting for a free meal. He got out when I tapped on the pitcher.

Hi eric,
You don't neccasarilly have to cut it off,
you could pull the lizard off since only the head is caught.
If you don't cut it off the trap and the lizard will rot and since the lizard is a really big catch it might kill the plant.If you don't want to take the lizard off the remove the trap from the base with some scissors.My VFT once caught a huge bee and when the bee died from exaustion I pulled it out and the the trap survived.
- Adrian