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 ...

Thrips are one of those tiny backyard bugs whose presence isn't always obvious, at least at first. There are many different types, and while some won't cause noticeable damage, others will wreak ...

Thrips are tiny but they cause a lot of big problems. They go after vegetables and our flowering plants and disfigure the blooms, fruit, leaves and stems, leaving discoloration and stunting.

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 ...

Fortunately, I was able to use a magnifying glass and microscope to spot the culprits: thrips. It’s likely you haven’t seen the thrips themselves in your garden because they are really tiny at ...

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 ...

One of the worst I've dealt with are thrips - the white, sap-sucking insects that quickly drain the life out of plants. It ...

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 ...

There are still thrips moving. That’s not supposed to happen. But wait. The crops aren’t being damaged. There is no scarring, discoloration or deformation on the leaves or the fruit.

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 ...

A blue grama grass seed field sits in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. (Gary White Photo) For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrips populations, University of Wyoming ...