I've been reading a bit about the sundews, and how they might catch fruit flies in the home. I guess they are too small to trigger VFT traps, since some people have VFTs inside also, so it seems like that has been mentioned often for sundews and not VFTs.

It occurred to me that maybe I could lure some insects nearby to help my other CPs. I know they have their own means of doing so, and I'm sure they do just fine since I'm not looking at them 24 hrs a day, but along with those instructions on the sundews, it was clearly mentioned how actually having insect food, helped the sundews grow faster, even in 1 growing season.

I currently have pitchers, VFTs, and sundews. I wonder if setting out pieces of fruit, or even something which attracts ants (outdoors, such as a bottle cap of sugar water) near the CPs would be of any benefit to the plants to get a little bit more insects.

I don't remember too much if eating too much food is actually bad for the plant, as it has to expend energy to digest the plant also. For example, I wouldn't need to feed every trap of a certain VFT, even just 1 trap would be fine for the plant. And of course, don't feed too often.

Is there any bad reason I should know about before trying this, other than inherent problems with things such as rotting fruit.