Fantastic beasts and where to find them

[paul1977]

This morning I was misting my orchids, after giving one of my Dendrobiums surface roots a spray I noticed something in the bark moving. I picked up the pot to have a closer look and an inch long millipede came crawling out to the surface. I’ve had the plant for the past three months and never taken it outside so the millipede must have been living in the pot since I got it. The plant looks healthy the roots look good and has two new canes growing so hopefully there’s been no damage done.

I’ve previously found an unusual looking tiny snail and a small spider with a lovely looking silvery body on other orchids I’ve got.

I’d love to know what weird and wonderful creatures the rest of you have found hiding in your orchids.

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[Daethen]

I have found millipedes and large spiders. Also had a bout of scale on some that I had gotten privately. Luckily I had them separate from the rest of my plants.

[Leafmite]

Snails, centipedes, some horrible furry many legged thing, spiders (I like these), a toad (he lived in our house for a week, with the plants, during a cold snap, poor thing), pill bugs, scale, mealy bugs (these hide very well in angraecum leonis leaves), and ants have all tried to claim my orchid/plant pots as their homes.

[WhiteRabbit]

the good: spiders (including some cool, but scary looking large black jumping spiders - they scare the heck out of me when they jump out of the pots!), tree frogs, lizards

the bad: ants (gah! they love Cymbidiums!), snails (they love living in Cyms, too - don't usually damage foliage much, but will go to town on blooms it seems ), aphids

[cbuchman]

I have found baby crickets too! It's a real pain to hunt them when I managed to bring one indoors once. They "sing" and make a racket after dark especially in my sun room with all the glass surfaces to reflect the sound.

And lets not forget slugs! UGH!

[dounoharm]

i found a cute tropical frog in a shipment from aloha orchids, but the poor thing died......too cold for him here....i love to find mantis, but they too dont make it with all the pesticides i use....i hate aphids and earwigs, and ants, my big 3 of bugdom.....