Orchid Pests
These tiny fast moving specks of red dots are often found when growing conditions are hot and dry.
Orchid pests. The good news with orchid pests is that there are chemicals that can kill the invaders the bad news is that they can cause quite a bit of damage before you are aware of their presence. Sap sucking and chewing. Orchids magazines popular orchid ailments series provided readers with information and images to help them identify orchid ailments and grow healthier plants. Orchids can fall foul of leaf rot mildew botrytis and many other pathogens by and large providing there is a good air movement around the plant and that by nightfall the leaves are fairly dry then fungal infections should not be a problem and correction of the bad condition along with a fungal spray check with the garden centre that it is safe for orchids should do the trick a fast fix for a localized leaf infection is to dust a little cinnamon onto the infected area.
They are classified as soft scale and hard scale. They are mobile spend part of their life cycle in the soil. Orchid pests there are a wide variety of possible orchid pests. In this free guide pest expert suzanne wainwright evans of budylady consulting shares with us her knowledge on these irritating bugs.
Insects can become a huge problem for orchids. Live on a wide variety of host plants. Orchid ailments the aoss pests and disease series. Reproduce rapidly in warm greenhouses.
May be present in. Orchid pest guide our free guide teaches you how to identify fight and prevent the the most common types of orchid pests. In extreme infestations youll see fine webbing on the leaves. Prefer to feed on flower parts where systemic insecticides do not reach them.
Symptoms soft scale damages the plant by sucking sap from the plant. Pests on orchid flowers fall into two categories. Managing thrips is difficult because they are very small and easy to overlook. Scale is a very common pest on orchids.
Sap sucking insects remove plant sap which is necessary for the plant to fuel itself causing general malaise and leaf stem and flower problems. From aphids to virus the series explored the finer points of insect pests rots disease and cultural challenges to name a few and. There are at least 27 species of scale identified. This causes weakening or damage to the orchid to the point where it will die if nothing is done to put things right.
Orchid weeds are pests of a different enough category that they have their own page. Aphids are common on many types of plants. Like to hide in flowers flower buds and leaf buds making them hard to spot and reach with pesticides. I can only describe some of the more common ones here but feel free to ask questions or talk about your own pest battles below.
Fortunately the hard scale is rarer on orchids but can be identified by its hard brown domes of the adult female. Orchid pests despite your best efforts to provide the best environmental conditions for your orchids there are some pests that can wreak havoc.