To both Byron and Jeffrey - Thanks tons for the advice - unfortunately, whether it was insects, or a fungus (or both, as I suspect), I couldn't save the green fairrieanum paph - heartbreaking since it was one of the most beautiful I've seen. However, the insects at least had started to spread to my other Maudia paphs - they didn't touch the vinicolors - just the coloratums and albas - strange. So..... I've had a total blast (pun ironically intended) fungiciding, insecticiding and repotting about 25 orchids that were either near the fairrieanum, or seemed to have some of the same conditions. I have hope that those will survive - all in all, I've lost 3 plants to this episode, so I suppose I should be grateful, although I'm not feeling particularly that way at this moment. Since I've heard everyone goes through something like this when they're a novice grower, I hope this suffices for my own special experience. This is the first to happen to me in 10 months of growing and 50+ orchids, so I suppose I have been fortunate. Ugghhhhh.....







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