Thrips are tiny, sap-sucking insects that can cause significant damage to plants, both indoors and out. These slender, ...

Thrips on plants in your garden or indoors can cause a lot of damage. Here's how to stop these pests with simple organic techniques. Thrips on plants can spell trouble for gardens, houseplant ...

A: The tiny insects you are describing are most likely thrips. These very tiny insects colonize a broad range of garden and landscape plants and are especially attracted to white, yellow and pale ...

What is causing this damage and how to I treat it? A: It sounds like you might have thrips. These are very tiny, slender insects with fringed wings about 1/20 of an inch long. They like to feed ...

Q:Months ago you wrote an article in The Chronicle about thrips in myoporum trees in the Bay Area ("Stepping up the fight against myoporum thrips," May 9; sfgate.com ...

One of the worst I've dealt with are thrips - the white, sap-sucking insects that quickly drain the life out of plants. It takes some perseverance to get rid of thrips and not acting quickly can ...

Specific insects to look for include caterpillars, grasshoppers, aphids, scale insects and thrips. Look for eaten, distorted or discolored leaves. If damage is noticed, hold a white piece of paper ...

Do you know what may cause this? -- Tom Beckmann Answer: This is damage from a common insect pest of gladioli called gladiolus thrips. Thrips are one reason we plant gladiolus corms early ...

Biology, Crop Injury, and Management of Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Infesting Cotton Seedlings in the United States. Journal of Integrated Pest Management , 2011 DOI: 10.1603/IPM10024 Cite ...

Q:I've heard that applying worm castings to the soil is an effective treatment for thrips on rhododendrons. Do you agree? If so, how thick should the layer be and is there an ideal season for it?

A question for Dan Gill: What is the best way to control thrips on roses?-- Marilyn Answer: Thrips are small insects that attack rose flowers by entering and infesting the buds while they are ...

Some bugs chew on leaves, others suck out a plant’s juices. The thrips parvispinus scratches the flesh and slurps, scratches and slurps, scratches and slurps. The nearly invisible invader from ...