Tuesday, May 15, 2018
OSMT Meeting at Cheekwood

7 pm Presentation (Refreshments will be served):
Ron McHatton, AOS Director of Education on “Orchids – Pests & Their Management”

Location: Cheekwood Botanical Gardens – directions, 1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville Tennessee 37205

No orchid grower is completely immune from the introduction of pests and diseases to their collection. This means that sooner or later we are all going to be faced with having to go to battle on some level with the forces of nature that have decided to feast on our plants.

Effective pest management isn’t easy and it isn’t fast and most of us try our hardest to get it over quickly. The result is often expressed by that phrase “scale (or mealybug or ?) are impossible to control.” The keys to effective pest management is to understand the pest you are fighting and to even better understand the pest management scheme you have decided to use. This presentation to look into the life cycle of our common pests, how pesticides work, and how they should be used for effective management.