Overture is the big gun for thrips. Expensive because of the size you must order. I but the bullet but got rid of them. If you are in the U.S. I can send you some. $20 plus shipping. PM me.Thank you all for kind replies.
I have found Thrips and there will be larva and lots of eggs....hmmmm. Not pleased.
I don’t think that it is thrips. They are so small, so slender, and I can’t imagine them attacking leaves like that. I
Think that a sucking insect like a thrip would not be able to penetrate the leaf surface.
I dealt with them often in Florida. I have seen damage caused by them dozens of times. I am pretty sure they were attacking flowers, which compared to a leaf, are much more easily damaged.
I think it is fungal or maybe bacterial.
Thank you very much. I live in Denmark.Overture is the big gun for thrips. Expensive because of the size you must order. I but the bullet but got rid of them. If you are in the U.S. I can send you some. $20 plus shipping. PM me.
Be sure you use something that kills, nit just suppresses thrips specifically or you will really have a problem and thrips are particularly bad because they spread virus from plant to plant.Thank you very much. I live in Denmark.
I'll treat it with a neem-oil foliar-spray solution and later evt. Siltac which is an environment friendly product and very good in my opinion.
I have cut it back dramatically, poor plant.
I agree. I monitor plants closely with a microscope and I never see mites on phrags. It is very interesting see the variety of critters on paphs under a scope such as broad mites, several species of spider mites, juveniles of both, discarded exoskeletons, and predators, but never on phrags. I have about 600 plants and maybe a third of them are phrags. MikeThis might already be covered in the comments (so apologies in advance), but has anybody ever had problems with mites on their Phrags?
I've certainly had my fair share of mite problems in my orchid collection on most of the genera I've grown, but I've never noticed mite damage on any Phrags. Maybe it's because they prefer Paphs and Phals and Catts, but I was assuming that (healthy) Phrags may be somewhat resistant to most of the pest mites that are common in cultivated plants.
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