My Venus Flytrap is budding new leaves and teeth

It had been successful during the summer catching bugs, but it seemed to have overdone it (or got over-watered being outside) and the leaves all blackened up and fell away. These are all new leaves coming forth. It could be that the old leaves had simply outlived their usefulness, Flytraps will shed them after they've had a few catches with them.

Venus Flytrap

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