How to Catch Flytraps

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Dean will be driving by and see a couple of heads pop up in the swamp, almost like prairie dogs. He'll hop out of his car, chase them down on foot, and confiscate the traps. I've gotten anywhere from 800 plants to over 2,000 plants. They work harder at not working than they would if they had a job. A lot of them already have charges pending such as drug charges.

Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus Flytrap crime ring — with lackies, middle men, and a mysterious end buyer who’s perpetuating the market.

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