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threegardeners North Augusta, ON Mar 21, 2008

Does anybody have a photo of a Thrip? I can't seem to locate them in Bug Files.

Thanks in advance,
Lee Anne

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Mar 22, 2008

Here's a good one on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ponticulothrips_diospyrosi.jpg

Another:

http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/inter/inmine/Thripa.html

They're tiny!!!... A single insect is called a "thrips", try searching that way.

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plantfreak78 Rolesville, NC(Zone 7b) Mar 25, 2008

Most people know thrips even if they don't know they know thrips :) Remember when you were little and would eat nectar from a honeysuckle bloom. If you waited a few weeks into their bloomtime the nectar wasn't as good because most of the flowers you tried to eat would have these annoying, tiny, yellow bugs inside them. Or maybe that's just a southern thing :) I've probably hated thrips since I was five years old!

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Maydreams27 Port Saint Lucie, FL(Zone 9b) Mar 27, 2008

I would like a couple thrips to help germinate my Plumeria. I am tired of sticking pine needles in them ;)

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