The Thrips Identification Workshop series helps growers and IPM professionals better manage the greenhouse pest.

Belonging to the Thripidae family (winged insects with fine hairs), thrips are tiny, cigar-shaped, slender-bodied bugs that are brown, yellow, or black in color. Most have fringed wings.

Thrips are very small and identification often requires a magnifying lens to see them. Their damage usually appears as scarred or distorted leaves, and discolored or scarred flowers and fruit.

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

Thrips will make their debut around the same time alongside ants, beetles, flies and bees. Unlike some of their relatives, however, people may find thrips suck the life out of their gardens.

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 ...

But the hardy naio trees of Hawaii are at risk from a miniscule, sap-sucking insect, the naio thrip. At one-twentieth of an inch, about the size of the comma in this sentence, the naio thrip is so ...

LARAMIE – For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrip populations, the University of Wyoming Extension has released a new management guide. The free digital ...