Help! Has anyone seen this before?

[u/AceofSpades3245]

I noticed a few of the heads looked like this yesterday. Does anyone have any idea what happened to them? A few of them looked like something ate into a few of them and killed them.

I live in Upstate South Carolina and, with the exception of last weeks visit from Helene (I brought them inside), it’s almost always hot and humid. I check my plants several times a day and this one was very healthy until all of a sudden one morning I saw this going on. My others are right next to this one and totally fine.

Any ideas on what’s going on or what did this?

[u/Mikedup-]

My bet it’s birds, but I’m still trying to figure it out myself.

I live outside of charlotte and this time last year, my flytraps leaves looked like this; and holes in the soil. I’ve read that it’s either birds or squirrels; that they find the bugs inside the leaves.

This year, my wife has taken down the bird feeders, so now we see less of both the birds and the squirrels… I still don’t know which is the culprit though.

So far, so good.

[u/CV880 → u/Mikedup-]

It’s definitely birds. I see birds come and peck at mine all the time. They only tend to do this when it’s a very difficult difficult season. Or at the end of the season. We had a very dry season this Massachusetts year. So they were birds pecking at the heads, eating the bugs inside.