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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 ...
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.
The Thripidae are the most speciose family of thrips, with over 290 genera representing just over two thousand species. [2] They can be distinguished from other thrips by a saw-like ovipositor curving downwards, narrow wings with two veins, and antennae of six to ten antennomeres with stiletto-like forked sense cones on antennal segments III and IV.
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]
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The eyes of the greenhouse thrips are in the form of compound eyes and are made up of 65–70 facets and H. haemorrhoidalis have three ocelli. [9] Another unique thing to the H. haemorrhoidalis is that they have asymmetrical mouthcones that contain an anteclypeus, labrum, labium, paired maxillary stylets and an unpaired left mandible that is ...
Paraneoptera or Acercaria [1] is a superorder of insects which includes lice (bark lice and true lice), thrips, and hemipterans, the true bugs. [2] It also includes the extinct order Permopsocida, known from fossils dating from the Early Permian to the mid-Cretaceous.
A pest is any living thing which humans consider troublesome to themselves, their possessions, or the environment. [1] Pests can cause issues with crops, human or animal health, buildings, and wild areas or larger landscapes. [2] An older usage of the word "pest" is of a deadly epidemic disease, specifically plague.