Got a beetle that only lives in a very limited area and it surround me. These beetles kill whole large new canes in a day. Can destroy a flower spike in hours. They have done a huge amount of damage. The true amount of damage took a couple of weeks to see it properly.
With bugs I always try to squash them. Hunt them down but it did not work. So I used a very restricted pesticide that totally nuked them and sadly every all other insects in the neighborhood. Only see a wrap now and then on the orchids which makes me think of beetle eggs. On the look out for eggs that may have survived the nuking advent.
Most of my beautiful Den's have recovered and replaced all the dead canes. So nice and so amazing! It is like they are thanking me for getting rid of the warlords. Even my advanced Dens in 50mm or 2" pots are slowly coming back to life. Thought I had lost over 50 small plants. But they are making a come back truly amazing plants.
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