The most dangerous pests of orchids

Growers like to grow a variety of tropical plants, which can significantly brighten the room. One of the most popular colors is considered to be an orchid.

When selecting plants consider leafy plates, flowers, branches and so on, but the substrate in most cases do not remember. Often, bringing the coveted pot home Florist transports and parasites, liking soil.

The most dangerous pests of orchids include such as:

· Slug and snail;

· Root mealybug;

· Chickweed;

· Jose scale and Coccidae;

· Whitefly;

· Mite (cucujidae);

· Mealybug;

· Sublevels.

Slug and snail

Slug and Snail destroy the organs of the flower, where most juice. Pests delighted with the places where moist and warm. Mostly Florist brings these parasites from places plant sale.

root mealybug

This pest destroys the roots of flowers. As a result, the plants die. Key signs of the parasite: calf length is two to three millimeters, the color white. The external signs of pest: changing the shape and color of the tabular sheets, fragmentary loss of turgor, no existence of the reaction on wetting of the substrate.

wood louse

This parasite lives in a nutrient medium. He completely destroys all the parts of a flower. Signs of plants is the formation of holes in the sheet metal plates.

Scale insects and Coccidae

The presence of parasites indicate yellow growths. The pest lives by these entities. Its larvae feed on plant sap.

whitefly

This pest has the form of a butterfly with white wings. It lays its eggs on the back side of lamina and destroys the aerial parts of the plants.

Mite - cucujidae

This parasite has a small body of orange or yellow. The larvae of the pest next recognized by the green color. Consider the parasite can only with a magnifying glass. Lack of timeliness in dealing with it will allow him to "eat" all the flower stalks and deprive the plant able to disclose buds.

Mealybug

This parasite is popularly known as woolly lice. Pest can bring even the flow of air from the street. He eats all the necessary trace elements flower and leaves bite to tissues containing a fungal infection.

sublevels

The parasite is a small insect, which body has a brown color. The pest has a lot of resemblance to the midge. He settled in the substrate and extends from it all nutrients. If this is not enough, the parasite moves to the root system of the flower.

Thus, the most dangerous pests for orchid are eight parasites, seven of which are insects, and one - to shellfish.