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The generic and English name thrips is a direct transliteration of the Ancient Greek word θρίψ, thrips, meaning "woodworm". [4] Like some other animal-names (such as sheep, deer, and moose) in English the word "thrips" expresses both the singular and plural, so there may be many thrips or a single thrips. Other common names for thrips ...
Toxic to cardio and central nervous systems, gastrointestinal bleeding [3] Ephedra: ma huang: Ephedra sinica: Agitation and palpitations, [3] "hypertension, irregular heart rate, insomnia, nervousness, tremors and seizures, paranoid psychosis, heart attacks, strokes, and death", [1] [15] kidney stones [15] Flavonoids (contained in many ...
Sprays should only be used in the evening to avoid issues with sunscald, and they may need to be reapplied several times at 7- to 10-day intervals to treat adult thrips and any nymphs that hatch ...
Pyrethroids are much less toxic in mammals than they are in insects and fish, because mammals have the ability to rapidly break the ester bond in bifenthrin and break the substance into its inactive acid and alcohol components. [2] In humans and rats, bifenthrin is degraded by the cytochrome p450-family. [5]
Exposure to pyrethrum, the crude form of pyrethrin, [31] causes harmful health effects for mammals. Pyrethrum also has an allergenic effect that commercial pyrethroids don't have. [ 31 ] In mammals, toxic exposure to pyrethrum can lead to tongue and lip numbness, drooling , lethargy , muscle tremors , respiratory failure , vomiting , diarrhea ...
Thrips tabaci is a species of very small insect in the genus Thrips in the order Thysanoptera. It is commonly known as the onion thrips, the potato thrips, the tobacco thrips or the cotton seedling thrips. [1] It is an agricultural pest that can damage crops of onions and other plants, and it can additionally act as a vector for plant viruses.
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Scirtothrips dorsalis, the chilli thrips [derivation 1] or yellow tea thrips, is an extremely successful invasive species of pest-thrips [1] which has expanded rapidly from Asia over the last twenty years, and is gradually achieving a global distribution. It has most recently been reported in St. Vincent (2004) Florida (2005), Texas (2006), and ...