Help identifying an orchid pest, please :)
I just unpotted a sickly cattleya hybrid to check the roots. In the lava rock medium, I spotted scores of fast moving, tiny maggot like worms disappearing into the holes in the lava. Ugghh. Really, really ugghh. Lots of dead roots on the plant, new growths were turning black, but not mushy, and dying.
I looked up thrips, and it doesn't seem like a match. Some kind of fly larvae maybe, but what I read about those didn't exactly match either.
Not sure if the dead roots and blackened growths are caused by the pests or something else.
Right now I just want to know what those repulsive, fast little worms were and how to make sure they are all dead, dead, dead.
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