My most beautiful and luxuriant green fairreanum paph seems to have bugs, at the very least, and I've never seen this before. It's a Maudiae alba with very light but mottled green leaves and the texture of it is kind of tender. It has been putting out all kinds of new growth, but the bottom leaves seemed to be languishing, so I pulled it out to look.

I saw one black critter, sort of long and beetlish, about the length of a pencil eraser - maybe a little smaller, but look at what's going on! It seems to have bugs and some kind of leaf fungus. What do I do? I was inspecting my paphs extra carefully before sending them for a month in an orchid friend's greenhouse. Now I'm afraid this will infest HER plants. UGHHHH! I NEED HELP QUICK!!!!

This is what I'm seeing:

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These are the closest shots I could get without using my macro lens.

Thanks for ANY help!

Maura