PLEASE HELP! New C&H seedlings have bugs!!!
Ok guys! Freak out moment! Many of you know I just got two Cattleya seedlings in from Carter and Holmes...well they were almost dry today so I went to water them for their first time and after really flushing the pot I let them soak in RO water in individual containers for just like 2 minutes. When I went to flush one last time and let them drop dry, on the first one I spotted this teeny tiny little gray/silver bug the almost looked like a super tiny mosquito. It was climbing up to higher roots away from the water it looked like. I tried to kill it and think I did but I found some questionable little things floating in the soak water that resembled the tiny but I noticed.
THEN i went to the second one and see....oh my gosh....I am not good with bugs....some sort of nasty slug/snail.... it had the two antenna eyes sticking up from a long tiny neck if that helps? There were a few that were climbing up the pseudobulbs trying to escape the water too.
WHAT CAN I DO????? I don't want to harm my seedlings but can I use 50:50 alcohol with a little dawn? What will work? I don't even know how to kill a slug/snail creature! Do I call C&H about this? They had a certificate saying they were checked for "all major pests"....obviously not very well.
sorry guys just so worried about the babies and I have no clue how to handle this!
---------- Post added at 12:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:37 PM ----------
OK correction. The little silver bugs are just fast little walkers and are on both seedlings. they don't look like mosquitos! Terrible description. Just teeny tiny silver bugs..
Also. They are snails! Not slugs!
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