Re: [OGD] Terry Glancy's: new malicious pests from Taiwan
Title: RE: Posts I've received all three of the posts here in South Florida without any problems. Andy Lanier Hi, Terry A. Glancy has tried three times to post this story on the OGD. He tried it in Rich Text and Plain Text and each time the message was rejected. I am just forwarding it to the OGD for him, to see if it will be accepted. If this fails again, I will try one more time by pasting the message in my own e-mail. 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 Email = HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website = HYPERLINK "http://www.PineRidgeOrchids.com" www.PineRidgeOrchids.com ___the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD)orchids@orchidguide.comhttp://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] Terry Glancy's: new malicious pests from Taiwan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10 Jan, peter croezen wrote: > RE: PostsHi, > Terry A. Glancy has tried three times to post this story on the OGD. He > tried it in Rich Text and Plain Text and each time the message was > rejected. Weird or what? I received the previous three perfectly OK. > I am just forwarding it to the OGD for him, to see if it will be > accepted. If this fails again, I will try one more time by pasting the > message in my own e-mail. Well, this is the fourth time it has arrived here - maybe it's a glitch in Terry's email client, because clearly it isn't being rejected by OGD. Regards, -- Tricia RISC OS: The future of computing. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Terry Glancy's: new malicious pests from Taiwan
Title: RE: Posts Hi, Terry A. Glancy has tried three times to post this story on the OGD. He tried it in Rich Text and Plain Text and each time the message was rejected. I am just forwarding it to the OGD for him, to see if it will be accepted. If this fails again, I will try one more time by pasting the message in my own e-mail. 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 Email = HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website = HYPERLINK "http://www.PineRidgeOrchids.com" www.PineRidgeOrchids.com ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
