White-to-silvery patches appearing on young tomato leaves can be easy to blame on sun, watering stress, or another small pest. Look more closely and you may find tiny black specks […]

Yes, adult thrips can fly, although many pest thrips are not strong, sustained fliers. Their tiny bodies have two pairs of extremely narrow wings fringed with long hairs, giving the […]

The thrips life cycle moves through egg, two actively feeding larval stages, prepupa, pupa, and adult. That sequence can look like complete metamorphosis at first, but thrips do not have […]

Thrips are tiny insects. Many pest thrips are about 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters (1/50 to 1/16 inch) long, although size varies by species. Some larger thrips reach about 2.5 to […]

Thrips are not a single species. The name refers to insects in the order Thysanoptera, which includes many species with very different relationships with plants. Some are serious crop and […]

Thrips larvae, also commonly called nymphs, are tiny, wingless insects with slender to oblong bodies. Most pest species have immature thrips that are translucent white, cream, pale yellow, yellow, or […]

Thrips are tiny, slender insects that often look more like moving slivers than recognizable bugs when you first spot them on a plant. Adults have long, narrow bodies and distinctive […]

Thrips are easy to miss until a plant starts looking wrong. A leaf develops silvery patches. New growth comes in distorted. Flower petals turn brown around the edges. Then, when […]

Thrips and aphids are both small plant-feeding insects, but they are usually easy to separate once you know which features to examine. Thrips have narrow, elongated bodies and often look […]

You disturb the top layer of potting mix and notice a tiny insect moving between the particles. If the plant above it also has silvery leaves or a known thrips […]