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New malicious pests from Taiwan
In an
attempt to lighten the topic of importing Phals in media from Taiwan, I would
like to submit this incident from a couple of years ago. We were helping some
friends of ours from Taiwan who were shipping their show and sales plants
directly from Taipei to Miami for a show up in mid-state Florida. We were just
trying to help coordinate their simultaneous arrival with the arrival of their
boxes of plants and flasks, brokerage coordination and paperwork, ag
inspection, and subsequent transport up to their show area.
The plants arrived maybe 10 hours before our commercial friends, but we
received a call from our broker who said that the orchid shipment had to be
gassed - flasks and all --- because of a new mealybug. I had
never seen any pests on any of the shipments from this Taiwanese nursery when
we had brought in plants for our nursery, so I thought this was rather
strange. It was even stranger when the broker said that there were mealybugs
all over the flasks.
My wife went up to ag to actually see what was going on. She walks into the ag
station and asks to see the shipment that had been gassed with methyl bromide.
All the Catts in bloom were fried as were the Oncids, Phals, and Dens. The
inspector then picked up a couple of Phal flasks and declared “I can’t believe
it, the bugs are still alive and moving around!!!”
Barbara picked at one of the mealybug clumps, looks at it closely, and pops it
into her mouth. Yup --- sytrofoam
chips.
Better watch out for those exotic pests now!!!
Terry A.
Glancy
Pine Ridge Orchids, Inc.
21100 SW 300 Street
Homestead, FL 33030-7812
ph (305) 247-4839
(305) 247-3086
fx (305) 247-8853
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