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Old 01-07-2013, 01:43 AM
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Is it harmful or harmless to the Orchids?

I'm in Sydney Australia.

He/she was concealed under the bark of my dendrobium. It is around 8mm long. I have found one every time I water over the last three waterings... comes to the surface as it doesn't like to be dunked... apparently.

It's not bright Orange like the dendrobium beetles I've seen in other photos.

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Old 01-07-2013, 02:16 AM
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this is an immature (no wings) cockroach...
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Old 01-07-2013, 03:50 AM
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It does kind of look like an infant native Australian cockroach.

I read in a booklet authored by the Australian Orchid Nursery that these roaches eat new shoots and roots....

HOw do I get rid o them? Drown 'em?
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The guaranteed way is to throw it in a fire and watch it burn.

The second way is to step on it.

Roaches are generally too hardy for that chemical stuff sometimes, especially if they manage to get away.
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If it is a roach and they don't like to be dunked, you might want to try and give your affected plants a good dunking to try and get them all to the surface and then collect them and follow Philip's advice in terms of how to "take care of them". Repeating this for a few weeks should help take care of the problem. Good luck!
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Forgot...

If you've got pet lizards of any kind that is able to feed on a roach or a pet snake that is an insectivore, feed it to them!
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Roaches have been scientifically proven to be able to survive nuclear explosions, so just squish these on sight! Chemicals will never work on these.
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If you've got pet lizards of any kind that is able to feed on a roach or a pet snake that is an insectivore, feed it to them!
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There's a family of blue tongue lizards in the garden. The roach I photographed chewed its way through the plastic wrap I sealed its collection jar with and got away. Stomping on them seems to be most effective.... But I'm going to have to start wearing shoes!! )

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