Mike Lyle wrote:
a.c. wrote:
[...]
I did notice yesterday that the venus flytrap isn't all that keen
on
spiced cooked chicken and the flies it has been fed are still
undigested a whole 3 days later.
Oddly enough, now that I have these plants, I can't seem to find
anymore flies. I had wondered if the might produce a scent or
similar
to attract even more flies.

I've never grown them, and have only an amateur plant-spotter's
knowledge of these plants, but aren't you under a misapprehension
here? As I understand it, they "eat" very few insects, and can live
well enough without them in cultivation.

As I understand it, looking at previous info here via google, they
digest insects to compliment their diet and may have evolved to do so
due to insufficient soil nutrients, hence the need to avoid water with
nitrates.

They, surely, can't make any
impression on the fly population around one's house;

It might depend on how small that population is and how much fun it is
to feed them with it. For me 1 or 2 flies buzzing around is 1 or 2
flies to many, especially if I go for a nap and wake up having been
biten my a small fly which was in fact a mosquito.

and I'd guess
that sticking little bits of spiced chicken into them might risk
causing disease. (I'm always ready to become better informed, of
course.)

The chicken was well cooked and therefore, presumably, reasonably
sterile (disease). Close obsevation suggested it was not interested in
it and so said chicken was removed.

--
Mike.