Venus Flytrap feeding

A long, descriptive video title, but that's basically what happens here. I fed a some of my #cat 's #ticks to my #venusflytrap (Dionaea muscipula), including some who were just mating. A venus flytrap fuses shut with immense pressure, and it actually crushed some of the ticks.
Venus flytraps can't digest mammal meat or blood though (I tried that already with a piece of raw meat), and the traps at the end of the arms end up dying. But not before they absorbed all the nutrients they can use out of the ticks I had given them.
The ticks ended up preserved, flat and completely mummified, frozen in their mating act. What a way to go. Current Camera: Sony A 7 IV https://amzn.to/3mXDsEp
General purpose macro lens for Sony with excellent sharpness: Sigma 105/2,8 DG DN Macro Art https://amzn.to/3lnAacT
Extreme Macro lens for Canon system (but I still use it with an adapter): Canon MP-E 65 https://amzn.to/3mUk6A2
Previous Camera (pre 2020): Canon EOS 7D Comparable to https://amzn.to/3ld8nvZ The tick hook remover I use:
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