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Cultivating Fungus Gnats as Sundew Food

Fungus gnats are greenhouse pests, but they're perfect self-sustaining prey for terrarium sundews. To restart a colony: take soil from a houseplant with gnats, pot it, and place in your terrarium. Eggs will hatch, larvae feed on fungi, adults feed sundews.

One grower's pest is another's feast. Moving flytraps outdoors solves the "green Red Dragon" problem—they need intense sun for deep color.

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