Sundew, Venus flytrap and the like

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Does anyone have anything like that? I recently ordered a Venus flytrap for the points I got for paid surveys and I'm expecting it soon - this and a jewellery casket I ordered then, too. I read about the plant a lot and was surprised one doesn't need to specially catch insects for it all the time - it can live on just 4 flies a year

I had a Venus Flytrap that lived for a couple years.It was a cool plant.I remember you are not suppose to make it close without feeding it.You can always get food for it at a pet store in the reptile section.I am going to order some hardy pitcher lilies for a water garden I have.
It needs to be kept moist and I think bright but indirect light.

I had a Venus flytrap called Sarah. I don't remember it catching anything, but I fed it cheese and it survived for six years. It died when I gave it tapwater for a few weeks instead of rainwater.

^ Yes they need soft water, ideally from rain. I used to have one but it eventually died after several years for unknown reasons. It used to catch flies periodically.

Now I have a pitcher plant. There are hundreds of varieties. This is a much more vigorous plant than the Venus fly trap. I've already split it a few times and now have some outdoors too, it is also somewhat winter hardy too. Like the other carnivorous plants it needs to be kept wet (it is a bog plant) and it also catches flies. The ones outside catch lots of flies and also wasps! Sometimes while sitting outside I hear a strange insistent buzzing and it is a large fly or wasp that has slipped into a trap and is furiously trying to escape. The pitcher plant also has odd looking but spectacular flowers once a year, which are quite a bonus.

The pitcher plant "leaves" are around a foot high; the hoods remind me of the sci-fi film "Day of the Triffids"

Mine looks similar to this:





and the flowers look like this:

I am definitely getting some of those,they are incredible TallyMan.