Can you do a video on the bugs that like Catasetum types and leaf issues. I have black bugs the size of a grain of fine ground pepper and bumps on underneath the leaves. Thanks
Hi 👋🏻 I’m petrified of getting thrips. I’ve not had them yet…that I know off. Mealy bugs are a pain outdoors for me and indoors spider mites. Little jerks! Thanks for sharing your experiences with pests. All part of growing these wonderful plants! I also wanted to let you know my walkeriana is doing fantastic. If you’d like to see the 3 month progress..check out my family room grow area video. I think it’s working on a flower spike. I should know soon. 😆
Hi Stephen, Thank-you for your channel, I've learned a lot from your posts! Last summer, I had some orchids outside here in Southern California, that attracted some tiny black bugs that moved around quickly like yours, I thought more like ants move. So I got a really close look at them and that's what they were - extremely tiny little black ants! I suspect they may have been going after happy sap and or slower moving small sucking insects like mites/thrips as I had little to no problems with the latter...
I dont know what everone else in the comments is on about, but these are thrips. All insects go through different life stages and this is a younger, immature form, which move a lot. Depending on the species, they can become more stationary in adult stage, but the adults arent the ones doing damage, it's the youngsters whose eggs are layed right on the plant by the adult female's piercing hind parts. I found that they evaded my discovery for so long because they were mostly living in the pot, eating up the root tips, and new growths that developed below the surface, but their preference is pollen, on non-orchid flowers. Since orchids don't really have pollen that is edible by them, they go all over other parts of the plant, as you see here. As another commenter said, regular applications of Bonide's systemic imanocloprid granules to every pot in the collection got rid of 99.9% of all thrips . . . but now I have spider mites, so it is an ongoing battle.
I don’t know anything about thrips. I’m not sure I have ever seen one. Your Phalaenopsis is pretty. Your garden is amazing. We can’t plant anything for about a month. Thanks for sharing.👏🥰
I have had those pests! I used that bonide flakes and they are gone. But they opened the flood gates for spider Mites! If it ain't one it's another! 😂 You did have a Phalaenopsis zebrina, what happened you loose it and not realize it? I hope not! It was gorgeous! 😊
@SVKLOrchids OH damn! That's sucks! It was so gorgeous! Yours was different than mine! Damn! Thinking about getting it again? So HOA is gonna allow a shade tarp? That stuff would get on my last nerve! 😂
@@hillbillyorchids Yes, the HOA should be fine with the shade structure since it's "temporary" and not a permanent installation. The zebrina was from Big Leaf, so if this sumatrana doesn't look good, I might grab another from them.
I also think those aren't thrips. Thrips are a lot more stationary. If those bugs have been around for 24 hrs and the blooms still look that fresh, it's very unlikely to be thrips. But do keep a close eye anyways. Thanks for the update after a while. Send us some rains, we are baking at 43°C
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Can you do a video on the bugs that like Catasetum types and leaf issues. I have black bugs the size of a grain of fine ground pepper and bumps on underneath the leaves. Thanks
Hi 👋🏻 I’m petrified of getting thrips. I’ve not had them yet…that I know off. Mealy bugs are a pain outdoors for me and indoors spider mites. Little jerks! Thanks for sharing your experiences with pests. All part of growing these wonderful plants! I also wanted to let you know my walkeriana is doing fantastic. If you’d like to see the 3 month progress..check out my family room grow area video. I think it’s working on a flower spike. I should know soon. 😆
Nice! I’ll check out the video!!
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Hi Stephen,
Thank-you for your channel, I've learned a lot from your posts! Last summer, I had some orchids outside here in Southern California, that attracted some tiny black bugs that moved around quickly like yours, I thought more like ants move. So I got a really close look at them and that's what they were - extremely tiny little black ants! I suspect they may have been going after happy sap and or slower moving small sucking insects like mites/thrips as I had little to no problems with the latter...
I dont know what everone else in the comments is on about, but these are thrips. All insects go through different life stages and this is a younger, immature form, which move a lot.
Depending on the species, they can become more stationary in adult stage, but the adults arent the ones doing damage, it's the youngsters whose eggs are layed right on the plant by the adult female's piercing hind parts. I found that they evaded my discovery for so long because they were mostly living in the pot, eating up the root tips, and new growths that developed below the surface, but their preference is pollen, on non-orchid flowers.
Since orchids don't really have pollen that is edible by them, they go all over other parts of the plant, as you see here.
As another commenter said, regular applications of Bonide's systemic imanocloprid granules to every pot in the collection got rid of 99.9% of all thrips . . . but now I have spider mites, so it is an ongoing battle.
Ah, good to know! I thought they were thrips, but was a bit hesitant to conclusively say as much!
Thrips sucked my Vanda spike dry
Ugh, that’s really frustrating!! 😢
I don’t know anything about thrips. I’m not sure I have ever seen one. Your Phalaenopsis is pretty. Your garden is amazing. We can’t plant anything for about a month. Thanks for sharing.👏🥰
Thank you! The summers are hot here, but the rest of the year is great for gardening!
They look a bit like springtails to me. Normally those are eating dead material but maybe they are attracted by the fragrance of the flower? …
I was thinking about springtails as well, but they’re so long and narrow!
Stephen; Have you considered going to an Army Surplus store / buying Camouflage netting ? or would your Anal-Retentive HOA poo poo that idea too?
You know, I haven't thought of camouflage netting! That might be a good idea, actually. I'll have to check it out.
I have had those pests! I used that bonide flakes and they are gone. But they opened the flood gates for spider Mites! If it ain't one it's another! 😂
You did have a Phalaenopsis zebrina, what happened you loose it and not realize it? I hope not! It was gorgeous! 😊
It died in last summer’s heat!! 😭😭
@SVKLOrchids OH damn! That's sucks! It was so gorgeous! Yours was different than mine! Damn! Thinking about getting it again? So HOA is gonna allow a shade tarp? That stuff would get on my last nerve! 😂
@@hillbillyorchids Yes, the HOA should be fine with the shade structure since it's "temporary" and not a permanent installation. The zebrina was from Big Leaf, so if this sumatrana doesn't look good, I might grab another from them.
But don't you think after time, if lelf untreated it will start to affect the orchid?
No, they only seem to be on the flower. That’s the softest, tastiest part of the plant!
I also think those aren't thrips. Thrips are a lot more stationary. If those bugs have been around for 24 hrs and the blooms still look that fresh, it's very unlikely to be thrips. But do keep a close eye anyways. Thanks for the update after a while. Send us some rains, we are baking at 43°C
That sounds hot!! We’ll be about those temps soon enough 😖
Kew now lists zebrina as a synonym of sumatrana, so there you go.
Ohhhh, good to know!! I'll have to look that up and send it to Dimitri.
Great looking nepenthes
Ah, that’s a variegated veitchii from Carnivero! Cool, but I’ll sell it. Takes up too much space.
@@SVKLOrchids that’s too bad, those seem rare (and pricey)