Thrips

Thrips feed by sucking the juice out of the leaves and flowers of plants, like vegan mosquitoes, and cause white emaciated damage (see this illustration of gladiolus thrips, by USDA illustrator Art Cushman).

Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 5 2010

Thrips feed by sucking the juice out of the leaves and flowers of plants, like vegan mosquitoes, and cause white emaciated damage (see this illustration of gladiolus thrips, by USDA illustrator Art Cushman).

Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 5 2010

Thrips = Thysanoptera, most adults around 1 or 2 mm. (singular form ends in s)

Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006

He sent us a research report done in Malaysia called "Bunchy and malformed top of papaya cv. 'exsotica' caused by Thrips parvispinus and Clado sporium oxysporum."

8: Plant protection and pest control 1996

Thrips, for example, are common on onions; they eat the leaves from the inside which creates transparent, thin spots eventually causing the leaves to fall over.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

Thrips have suckingrasping mouthparts and are very small (about 1 mm or less).

Chapter 10 1981

Thrips: These tiny (1 mm) yellow to black insects have two sets of fragile wings which are fringed with hairs along the rear edge.

Chapter 10 1981

- Thrips and certain other insects feed on sap by piercing the stems and leaves of cassava.

Chapter 4 1977

Thrips and aphis are extremely partial to Tomatoes.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Our illustration shows the Thrips in the larval and winged state, natural size and greatly magnified.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons