What Do Sundews Eat

These plants feed on insects. Mosquitoes are abundant in the sundews’ preferred habitat and can make up a significant portion of their diet in these locations. Sundews can kill a trapped insect in about 15 minutes, but may digest it over a few weeks.

Do sundews eat ants?

You can also feed ants or other small, live insects to your plant. Your sundew will do best if you only feed it a single bug about once a week. If you want to let it catch its own food, you can place it in an open area where bugs will be likely to land on it.

Can you feed sundew dead bugs?

Unlike with flytraps, the bugs don’t have to “act” alive to stimulate digestion. Dead ones work just as well. Some growers who keep live insect food for reptiles also feed their plants with these.