Suspiciously mealy-looking bug

[Skycat]

I got a cute little Paph from tonight's OS raffle. It's attached to a large, dead-looking rhizome, but also has nice leaves and a bunch of root nubs.





I saw a tiny white bug (probably about a millimeter or two, I dunno) crawling around at the base, and thought it might be a mealy, but the guy I asked was sure it wasn't, but he didn't know what it was. Then I thought maybe it could be a baby pillbug or something like that, since it was mainly hanging around the old dead tissue on the rhizome. But on the way home, I still kept it away from the other two plants I won.

Then after I got home and was able to examine closer, take pictures (very difficult because my camera doesn't deal well with white subjects, and also the bug kept moving around and trying to hide), and compare with Google image searches, it looks exactly like a long-tailed mealy! Aaaaaaargh!



I stabbed it with the pointy end of the tag and wiped the plant down with alcohol, but now I have that conflict of whether or not I should even keep this plant, and I really really hate this feeling.