I found some nasty-ness on my bulb today after the scape looks to be drying up and the leaves look redish and ugly at the bottom...little black bugs were running up and down in there. OH NO! My guess is that they are mites of some sort? I've tried to read and figure out what I should do, but I can't decide between spraying something down into the bulb that could harm it, or doing a hot water treatment. I am not entirely sure how to do said water treatment either... Does anyone have a tried and true method of ridding bulbs of mites? Pat, what became of your bulbs and situation? This poor fella was labeled 'Minerva', but was blooming when I bought it. It clearly wasn't 'Minerva', but I found the bloom to be quite pleasant and with another scape to come I thought it was a good buy...Here are the photos: When purchased: EEEEEK...Now: From Amaryllis that needs HELP! From Amaryllis that needs HELP! Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! -Frank

I don't think I got 10-15% mislabeled. I was lucky. Though you were lucky with your Pink Nymphs, I was unlucky with normal Nymphs... I ordered a lot of double varieties. Pink Nymph, turned out to be Mutt, White Nymph turned out to be Nymph, another Pink Nymph turned out to be Nymph, Aphrodite turned out to be Nymph. So I have a bunch of Nymphs and no Pink Nymph at all. I will reorder that this year. I also ordered Chianti, that turned out to be Celica. But when I complain, the company either sends me a new bulb or just refund my purchase price. If they don't do it, I go to the credit card company and ask for refund from them. I am not playing around. I don't mind how wonderful the flowers are, if they are not true to name and there was a warranty on the site that they guarantee true to name, then I want them to send me bulbs till they turn out to be the ones mentioned, or back the money. As you said: If I wanted 8 Nymphs, I would have bought 8 Nymphs at my local store for $9, instead of buying from the Internet for 12, plus paying for shipping and handling. The funny thing is that I don't really like Nymph in the first place. I don't really like the white varieties with these red stripes. Fortunately, there is no 70 more new varieties for me anymore. I am glad I am not spending so much this year for new bulbs. So far, I have 8 new bulbs coming, and then after buying up everything locally, I will continue on going on a shopping spree on the Internet.

I agree... unless your cat is already used to the idea of bathing, it might be best to cut the matted fur and use a dry shampoo. Case in point... many years ago, my now-ex-husband and I had a little orange kitty... his names was Orange Crush... Crush got all full of motor oil from being under the cars in the garage, and my ex thought it would be a great idea to bathe him. He took Crush to the shower, got undressed, got in with him... and turned on the water. Crush climbed my ex in no time flat, claws extended, trying hard to get out of the stream of water! I administered first aid to the ex, and that was the last bath Crush ever had! Moral of the story is... cats prefer to bathe themselves, unless they've been trained from a young age to allow their owners that privilege! Seriously, though... I seldom bathe my dogs, unless they get into something... they need the natural oils in their coat, to keep the coat healthy. Brushing is all that's really required... that, and a bath or two a year.

Hi Everyone~!! After reading all of the comment's on this thread I thought I would add our experience in hope's it will help someone. This happened several years ago with our 4 month old G.R. Murphy, we started noticing red rashes on his abdomen, after bathing him and trying simple things we took him in to our vet. We were told it was just a basic skin allergy that he had more than likely picked up from the Lake water and with medication and bathing it would clear up. It did not......after 2 year's of doing everything humanly possible to clear his skin including sending skin scraping's to U.C. Davis in Calif. , 3 different vet's, and a constant stream of extremely expensive medications, potion's and lotion's I intensified my research. I found an article that described everything Murphy was experiencing perfectly, I found a few more and all of them led to dog's being put down with no cure. Well I never give up so the one thing I found similar in every article was that it may be an internal parasite, so comparing all of the different medications came up with a list and started researching internal parasites and the medications that would kill them. After the process of elimination I found one Medication that neither I or any of the others had tried..........Interceptor. Unfortunately all of my research was lost with the computer I had done it on but the research paid off. I got the medication gave Murphy the chewy tablet and within 6 days his skin was beginning to clear, it is a once monthly treatment and by the 2nd. month all open sores had cleared, we were able to wein him off of all of the medications he was energetic and happy again. They have improved the medication and it is now called Interceptor Plus. Unfortunately all of the medications had taken a toll on Murphy's Liver and we lost him a year later. 6 years ago we brought a New Member of the Family home another G.R. , I had ordered the new Interceptor but it had not arrived yet and we saw the same rash..................................at that time they had stopped producing it while building a new plant so I was so desperate I had to order it from Australia told them the situation and they had it to my home within a week, gave Hunter his chewy and All is well. In closing I hope this info will help someone and remember Never Give Up~!!!!! Here is a link. Love to All. Jan. http://www.interceptorplus.com/