Thrips
What are Thrips?
Thrips are tiny about 1/20 inches (1-2 mm) long slender bodied insects that belong to two different families (Thripidae and Phlaeothripidae) in an insect order, Thysanoptera. Depending on the species, they are yellowish, blackish, whitish or dark brownish color insects. Adult thrips have hair-fringed wings but their immature young ones called larvae or nymphs are wingless. In general, the males are slightly smaller than the females. Both adults and nymphs of thrips have rasping and sucking types of mouth parts that they use to puncture and the suck the cell sap (juice) from the punctured plant tissue.
Facts (show all)
- List of the most economically devastating species of Thrips
- Most common host plants of Thrips
- Biology of Thrips
- What type of damage is caused by thrips?
- Which Viruses are transmitted by thrips?
- Biological control of thrips
- Predatory beneficial insects
- Parasitic beneficial wasps
- Parasitic beneficial entomopathogenic nematodes
- Research Papers