Bruce, thank you so much for your reply. I actually attended the show/sale in Rogers last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope to attend the meeting of 3/22. Anyway, they are tiny brown upside down cups, they seem to excrete some sort of sticky substance . I keep scraping them off and discarding them with my fingernails. However, after reading some of the basic info on this website-----I'm surprised my orchids have managed to survive at all. Probably have them in wrong pots, overwater, seldom feed, under heat/air vent, no moisture tray or fan. But they have been blooming each spring. Actually, the scale appeared on the orchid I bought at the show last year and seems to have spread since. That plant looked sure to die so I took it out of pot removed all bark I could, sprayed the tons of bug-killer on entire plant and replanted it. It grew a new sprout and old growth seemed to come around. It is a Pacific Sizzle Senorita x Pacific Sunsplash Gnarly 360l, whatever that means. I just thought it was pretty and got one for myself and my daughter who is also interested in orchids.

Thanks again for your reply. I hope to see you on March 22.

Josey