Danny,

My story goes the other way - we battle rats every winter. Last winter we'd
set out bait and caught one - but it died somewhere inconvient and we
smelled it for a couple weeks before the carcass was located. A month later
our B. phalaenopsis came into bloom and I immediately was like "Oh! We got
another rat! Where is it!?" and then a few hours later noticed the blooms on
the B. phalaenopsis. They're hard to see - they grow right at the base of
the pseudobulb, behind the leaves.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

"danny" wrote in message
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Someone (Fred Clarke?) told a story about thinking a dead rat smell was
coming from a Bulbo and then realizing after a few days that it really was
a dead rat :-)