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The new females, now impregnated, eat their way out of their mother's body so that they can emerge to find new thrips eggs, killing their mother in the process (though the mother may be only 4 days old at the time), starting the cycle again. [2] [3] [4] The male emerges as well, but does not look for food or new mates, and dies after a few hours.
However, some thrips, including rose thrips, onion thrips, and western flower thrips, damage plants. They can weaken vegetables and flowers and even spread plant diseases . What Do Thrips Look Like?
H. haemorrhoidalis have pale yellow 8-segmented antennae where the last segment narrows to look needle-like. [6] H. haemorrhoidalis have what is described as a hypognathous head that is pointed backwards. [9] The head of the greenhouse thrips is connected to the prothorax by an articular membrance and by cervical sclerites as well. [9]
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 ...
The chili thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis, is an Asian pest on many crops, including chili peppers, roses, strawberry, tea, ground nuts, and castor bean. The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis , has recently expanded its range from western North America to large portions of Europe and Asia through the trade of greenhouse plants.
Articles relating to the Thrips (order Thysanoptera), minute (mostly 1 mm (0.039 in) long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Different thrips species feed mostly on plants by puncturing and sucking up the contents, although a few are predators. Entomologists have described approximately 6,000 species.
In gall thrips, brood care is essentially role reversed. Thrips young are not helpless, and can immediately begin to provide for itself and to a certain extent the related individuals around them, while the soldier adults stay busy patrolling the gall for possible incursions. Thus, the brood cares for the adults. [6]
Odour is sensory stimulation of the olfactory membrane of the nose [1] by a group of molecules. [2] Certain body odours are connected to human sexual attraction. [3] [4] Humans can make use of body odour subconsciously to identify whether a potential mate will pass on favourable traits to their offspring.