Order of small insects, the thrips, with around 5,000 species.
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- Thrips Information from Wikipedia on the Thysanoptera or thrips, an order of about 5000 species of insect, each generally under one millimetre long.
- Thysanoptera: Thrips An introduction to the Thysanoptera, with an illustration of Thrips australis.
- Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis Photographs and information on this greenhouse thrip, its distribution, description, biology, hosts, economic importance and management.
- Selenothrips rubrocinctus: Redbanded Thrip Illustrations and information on this species, its distribution, description, life history, hosts, its economic importance and management.
- Thrips palmi: Melon Thrip Illustrations and information on this species, its distribution, life cycle, description, host plants, damage done, natural enemies and management.
- Thrips simplex: Gladiolus Thrip Illustrations and information on this species, its distribution, description, host plants and management.
- Frankliniella fusca: Tobacco Thrips Photograph of adult and larval thrips, with information on this vector of the tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (TSWV).
- Thrips Photograph of these insects with information on their hosts, symptoms, the diseases vectored, their life cycle and description.