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Monday, October 21, 2002
At our house, Nancy has a venus fly trap that she got from a co-worker. It's in this little plastic cylinder. Flies don't seem to be attracted to it at all. They'd rather be sitting on the ceiling fan, the stair banister, the kitchen counter, the dining table, my arms..pretty much anywhere but the venus fly trap's leaves. At the BBQ on Saturday, I caught a fly and trapped it in the venus fly trap's plastic container, and a bunch of us layed in a circle around the trap, waiting for some action. The fly was able to elude two of the closing traps after triggering them. In the natural course of irony, it was only when we gave up looking at it and started watching the game (Giants vs. Angels World Series Game 1) that someone noticed, "hey, where'd the fly go?" And there it was, a black pellet in one of the closed traps.
Lessons learned:
1) Contrary to its name, a venus fly trap is actually from Earth.
2) A watched fly trap won't catch anything (it won't boil either).
3) A mosquito is too big for a fly trap to eat.
4) Venus fly traps aren't an effective method for pest control. Don't count on it reducing the number of flies in your house.
5) Flies are really resilient. I slapped them pretty hard, and they seem like their really injured, but give them a few minutes, and they'll be flying around like nothing happened.
4:30 PM Albert
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..a life in DUO