Thans Hans I have all these species in the garden except one. Your discription perfectly described all of the circumstances in the lead ou to my little cotastrophy, we had a cold wet winter & spring & they got damaged by the goats 3 times this year. I love my bulbs & they really put up with some torture The other day i had an 8 foot long carpet pithon visit the garden & regular visits from 5 foot long goannas that insist on sunning them selves on my bulb patches & squishing things flat. I wouldnt have it any other way though :-) I must do a little visiters to the bulb garden pgoto shoot & give everyone a laugh when i get a chance :-) Thanks Again Hans Steven Queensland Australia On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Hans-Werner Hammen <haweha@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hello StevenNote that I can be very wrong about my presumption that the > mites are the (=primary) reason. However, IF Ken told me "well I have a lot > of Hippeastrums in their neighbourhood" or such, for example EUCHARIS also > being a "very good" source (permanent reservoir)