{"id":1945,"date":"2019-01-25T12:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/termirepel.com\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:13:43","slug":"thrips-pesky-pest-to-roses-and-ornamental-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/thrips-pesky-pest-to-roses-and-ornamental-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrips \u2013 Pesky pest to roses and ornamental crops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are over 6000 thrips species sucking the plant life all over the\nworld. Thrips\nare small insects, only about 1\/20″, but they can cause a lot of damage.\nAt maturity, they are yellowish or blackish with fringed wings.  Nymphs\nhave a similar shape but lack the wings. They are usually yellowish to white.\nThrips are poor flyers. As a result, damage often occurs in one part of the\nplant then slowly spreads throughout it. Thrips cannot fly properly as they are\npoor in that but can readily spread long distances by floating with the wind or\nbeing transported on infested plants. The large thrips feed in large groups and\nif they disturbed they leap or fly away. Thrips are barely visible to the\nuntrained eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thrips cause\nmajor economic losses in many agricultural system every year and can have\ngenerations around 12 to 15 per year, their life cycle is faster in warmer\nmonths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thrips are particularly attracted to flowers which are bright in color,\nwhere they cause damage such as streaking and scarring of petals, damaging of\nflowers and flower buds and incomplete petal expansion. The flowers that\nproduce double layers with many petals and more prone to thrips<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roses are roses and for the longest time they have been\nhonored as the most popular flowers in the world, but if that rose is riddled\nby thrips then it may lose its traditional charm. They can be tough to get rid\nof once they have invaded roses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western flower thrips are primarily pests of herbaceous\nplants, but high populations occasionally damage continuously- or\nlate-blossoming flowers on woody plants such as roses. Some plant-feeding\nthrips are also predaceous on other pests, such as spider mites. In young\ncotton seedlings in California, western flower thrips is considered beneficial\nbecause it feeds on spider mites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symptoms in ornamental crops:<\/p>\n\n\n\n