Thrips

Thrips
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
minute, agile insects of the order Thysanoptera. Thrips have piercing-and-sucking mouthparts and cup-shaped feet from which bladderlike adhesive organs may be extended.

Thrips in the genera Frankliniella (flower thrips) and Thrips also spread plant diseases through the transmission of viruses, such as Tospoviruses.

Scirtothrips dorsalis
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Taxonomy
A Biocontrol for a Wide-Ranging Thrips (Apr 28, 2009)
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Food: Aphids, thrips, mites, scale insects, and eggs of butterflies and moths
Overwinters as adults, when they seek sheltered places to hibernate and often invade homes in large numbers ...

The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.

They also eat other harmful insects like fruit flies, thrips, mites, and other plant-sucking insects.

They feed primarily on mites, thrips, moths, bugs, wasps and flies.
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For example, ladybirds consume aphids, scale insects (parasites of plants), thrips (insect species that feed on a large variety of plants and animals by puncturing them and sucking up the contents) and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.

Order: Thysanoptera (thrips)
Order: Megaloptera (dobsonflies and alderflies)
Order: Rapdhidioptera (snakeflies)
Order: Neuroptera (antlions and lacewings)
Order: Coleoptera (beetles)
Order: Strepsiptera (strepsipterans) ...

Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata, or the mungbean beetle Callosobruchus maculatus Fabr. while others are important controls of agricultural pests. For example, lady beetles (family Coccinellidae) consume aphids, fruit flies, thrips, ...

the mungbean or cowpea beetle Callosobruchus maculatus, while other species of beetles are important controls of agricultural pests. For example, beetles in the family Coccinellidae ("ladybirds" or "ladybugs") consume aphids, scale insects, thrips, ...

See also: Aphid, Beetle, Diver, Weevil, Spider