My traps and pitchers die after eating, either turning black or whithering. What am I doing wrong?

That's strange. How much light do they receive? What type of soil are they in? How often do you water them, and what type of water? Do you fertilize?

You might check our new Carnivorous plants forum. There are some members there who are successfully growing them. I hope you can find the answer to your problem.

Are you feeding your carnivores bugs? Or letting them fend for themselves? If you are feeding them, you might be over fertilizing. They don't need all that much (they are photosynthesizing); what they catch on their own is usually sufficient.

Actually mine is doing the same but I think it's because I just bought it and is transitioning to its new environment! Did you just get yours?

Pictures if possible would be lovely.

I just bought one myself. I read that after each leaf has have opened and fed three times they will turn black and die off and a new one will take it's place. I hope this info helps.

The number of times a particular trap can catch prey is variable. Some blacken and die after the first bug - others can catch several, although 3 or 4 seems to be the usual maximum. The traps also die off naturally after a couple of months.

With a health plant, more traps will grow and mature, so older ones dying off is no big deal.

By the way, if you trigger a trap, or it partly closes in an unsuccessful capture event - it uses up one of that trap's "lives".