I'm beyond crying...I just went through the orchids on the western side of
the house, and ALL the ones with the new growth have been damaged.
Interestingly, they spared the dendrobiums, some oncidiums as well as the
phals and paphs. They really went for the bulbos, pleurs, catts and
Laelias...I just hope that they wont die and will be able to restart a new
growth...

-M

"wendy7" wrote in message
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Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried.
I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put
out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave?
Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out!
Cheers Wendy

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GrlIntrpted wrote:
[Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR
disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every
window in the house is serving
as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the
orchids
from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the
night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed
[Our bed is 4 feet
off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the
basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's
at night]. In the
morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids
back on to
the sills.

This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on
two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit
as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered
too. The bulbo's
took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already
contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile,
I feel awful, I can
not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever
thought that mice
go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid?

The very bummed,
Mariana