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  2. The Food Defect Action Levels - Wikipedia

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    The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition [1] detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter", mold, rodent hairs, and insect ...

  3. Prevent Thrips on Plants Naturally with These 10 Must-Know Tips

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    Basil and other strongly scented herbs naturally repel thrips, while flowering plants, like yarrow, dill, and parsley, attract ladybugs and other thrip predators. Growing these plant companions ...

  4. Impatiens necrotic spot orthotospovirus - Wikipedia

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    Western Flower Thrips are extremely hard to remove from their host plants, as they often dig themselves deep into blossoms, buds and other areas hard to reach with insecticides. [9] So, even if plants are sprayed regularly with insecticide, INSV and other insect vectored viruses can not always be ruled out when forming diagnosis.

  5. Thrips - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Croquet - Wikipedia

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    Croquet (UK: / ˈ k r oʊ k eɪ,-k i / or US: / k r oʊ ˈ k eɪ /) is a sport [1] [2] which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

  7. Human interactions with fungi - Wikipedia

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    Pneumocystis causes pneumonia, again mainly in people with weakened immune systems. [59] Candida yeasts are the agents of Candidiasis, causing infections of the mouth, throat, and genital tract, and more seriously of the blood. [60] Ringworm is a skin infection that infects some 20% of the human population; it is caused by some 40 different ...

  8. Human interactions with insects - Wikipedia

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    The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.

  9. Western flower thrips - Wikipedia

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    The western flower thrips [Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)] is an invasive pest insect in agriculture. This species of thrips is native to the Southwestern United States [ 1 ] but has spread to other continents, including Europe , Australia (where it was identified in May 1993 [ 1 ] ), and South America via transport of infested plant ...