I appreciate the responses guys! I failed to mention in my first post that I do keep ferns...I ALWAYS have pest problems with them but rarely with the orchids. The pest incidences that involved orchids have, fortunately, been isolated. Plants brought in with preexisting scale (that nursery is now closed). I do use gentle chems on my orchids and keep malathion at hand in the event that I have a crisis on my hands. I wondered if anyone offered up more appealing plants to the pests as a distraction from the more valued plants...a "living fly strip" if you will.
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