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After growing hundreds of indoor plants over the years, I've quickly learned to spot the telltale signs of thrips damage. This guide will show you what to look out for. I've included lots of photos to help you compare common thrip damage with what you're seeing on your own plants.
9 Ιουλ 2024 · Thrips appear to be tiny dark slivers on your plants. It is hard to see their bodies well without a magnifying glass, but up close, they look a bit like lobsters. Shake them onto a white background in order to see them well.
Finding thrips on people’s plants: here are several examples where people sent me photos of their sad plants and, upon closer inspection, I found thrips. Other methods of controlling thrips: Biological control – there are certain predators of thrips that you can purchase and deploy onto your infested plants.
2 Αυγ 2024 · You will find thrips on plants ranging from flowers to crops, including asparagus, avocado, beans, lettuce, strawberries, and tomatoes as well as pansies, dahlia, peonies, carnations, and chrysanthemums. They damage hundreds of plants, causing damage by feeding on the plant's juices.
They are typically brown, black, or yellow in color and have a characteristic fringed appearance due to the elongated, narrow wings that they possess. Thrips have a unique mouthpart structure, which they use to feed on the sap of plants, causing damage to leaves, flowers, and fruit.
12 Νοε 2020 · Pictures of leaf damage caused by thrips. Thrips damage plants when feeding on the leaves and stems. Thrips have mouthparts that pierce soft plant tissue so they can suck plant juices. Thrips damage to plants looks like silvery-white spots and black dots.
14 Φεβ 2021 · Thrips are small, slender insects that suck the juices out of the leaves, stems, buds and flowers. They are generally under a quarter-inch in length when they are adults. Common colours for the adults are brown, black or yellow and when in the larvae stage, they are a yellow, greenish colour.
