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Thrips

Thrips (singular: thrips; order Thysanoptera), commonly known as thunderflies or thunderbugs, are minute (mostly 1 mm (0.04 in) long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Entomologists have described approximately 7,700 species; they are distributed globally with their food plants. They fly only weakly and their…

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related to As pests · 19
Thrips → Although, Carmovirus, Examples, Flower-feeding, Frankliniella, Ilarvirus, It, Limothrips, Machlomovirus, Many, Other, Over, Sobemovirus, Some, The, Their, These, Virus, When
related to Naming and etymology · 18
Thrips → Alexander Henry Haliday, Ancient Greek, Baron Charles De Geer, Catholic, English, Fedor, Greek, Heinrich Uzel, In, Irish, Like, Linnaeus, Other, Philippo Bonanni, Physapus, Swedish, The, Thysanoptera
related to Evolution · 16
Thrips → By, Cenomanian, Cenomanithrips, Cretaceous, Didymothrips, Early Cretaceous, Ginkgoales, Merothripidae, Mya, Myanmar, Parallelothrips, Permian Permothrips, Some, The, There, Thysanoptera
related to Feeding · 16
Thrips → Acacia, Aeolothripidae, Akainothrips, Aulacothrips, Australia, Brazil, Dunatothrips, Mesozoic, Mirothrips, Mischocyttarus, Other, Phlaeothripinae, Polistes, The, These, Two
related to Management · 16
Thrips → Beauveria, Biological, Due, Eulophidae, Hymenoptera, Insecticidal, It, Japan, Only, Orius, Other, Scientists, Suitable, This, Trichogrammatidae, Verticillium
related to Pollination · 16
Thrips → Amber, Australia, Australian, Cycadopites-like, Cycadothrips, Darwin, Early Cretaceous, Electron, Ericaceae, Gymnopollisthrips, Macrozamia, Myrsine, Scirtothrips, Some, The, Wilkiea
related to Phylogeny · 12
Thrips → DNA, Hemiptera, Idolothripinae, In Terebrantia, In Tubulifera, Melanothripidae, Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae, Terebrantia, The, Thripinae, Tubulifera
related to Social behaviour · 11
Thrips → Aeolothripidae, Anal, Gossypium, Hibiscus, In, In Australia, Males, Merothripidae, Small, Thysanoptera, While
related to Damage to plants · 10
Thrips → Acacia, Australia, Family Thripidae, For, In Casuarina, More, Most, Some, These, This
related to External links · 10
Thrips → Australia Archived, California Pest Management Guidelines, California Thrips Identification, Diseases Image Library, March, PaDIL, Pests, ThripsUniversity, Wayback MachineUniversity, World

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species plant small eggs wings terebrantia two females may form many tubulifera feeding order group plants insects males known phlaeothripidae

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Thripsis adirect transliteration of the Ancient Greek word θρίψ0.90text
Thripsis apossibility of being trapped by water0.90text
thrips is the possibility of being trapped by waterinstance ofThrips are picked up along with grass in the nests of birds and can be transported by the birds.A hazard of flight for very small insects0.80text
Elaphothrips tuberculatus are known to be facultatively ovoviviparousinstance ofSome thrips0.80text
retaining the eggs internallyinstance ofSome thrips0.80text
giving birth to male offspringinstance ofSome thrips0.80text
the fungi Beauveria bassianainstance ofBiological insecticides0.80text
Verticillium lecanii can kill thrips at all life-cycle stagesinstance ofBiological insecticides0.80text
Thripsrelated to As pestsMany0.60section
Thripsrelated to As pestsSome0.60section
Thripsrelated to As pestsOver0.60section
Thripsrelated to As pestsThese0.60section

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