{"id":584,"date":"2015-10-21T05:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/termirepel.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:15:35","slug":"thrips-on-loose-in-your-farms-and-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/thrips-on-loose-in-your-farms-and-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrips on loose in your farms and gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thrips\u00a0(order\u00a0Thysanoptera<\/em>) are minute, slender insects\u00a0with fringed wings. Other common names for thrips include thunder flies, thunder bugs, storm flies, thunder lights,\u00a0storm bugs,\u00a0corn flies\u00a0and\u00a0corn lice. Thrips species feed on a large variety of plants and \"thripsanimals by puncturing them and sucking up the contents. Some species of thrips feed on other insects or mites\u00a0and are considered beneficial, while some feed on fungal spores\u00a0or pollen. More than 6,000 species of thrips are known around the world, with over 300 of these in Europe and only around 150 natives to Britain. Thrips are small hemimetabolic\u00a0insects with a distinctive cigar-shaped bauplan. They are elongated with transversely constricted bodies. They range in size from 0.5 to 14 millimeters (0.020 to 0.551\u00a0in) in length for the larger predatory thrips, but most thrips are about 1\u00a0mm in length.<\/p>\n

\"thrips<\/a>Many thrips are pests of commercial crops due to the damage caused by feeding on developing flowers or vegetables, causing discoloration, deformities, and reduced marketability of the crop. These tiny insects pierce hundreds of species of plants, sucking the nutrients and causing billions of dollars in damage to U.S. agricultural crops.<\/strong>\u00a0Barely visible to the naked eye, they heavily damage fruits, vegetable, and horticultural crops, so much so that they can and do pose a biosecurity threat. In 1996, Cuba’s Fidel Castro accused the United States of aerially releasing Thrips palmi over potato fields. Thrips may also serve as vectors for plant diseases, such as Tospoviruses.\u00a0Over 20 plant-infecting viruses are known to be transmitted by thrips. These enveloped viruses are considered among some of the most damaging of emerging plant pathogens around the world.<\/p>\n

Herbaceous ornamental, and certain vegetable crops are more susceptible to serious injury from thrips feeding and thrips-vectored viruses, especially when plants are young. Thrips feeding can stunt plant growth and can cause damaged leaves to become papery and distorted, develop tiny pale spots (stippling), and drop prematurely. Infested terminals may discolor and become rolled. Petals may exhibit \u201ccolor break,\u201d which is pale or dark discoloring of petal tissue that was killed by thrips feeding before buds opened. On some plants, thrips can cause severe stunting to the early season flush of terminal growth.<\/p>\n

Western flower thrips is primarily a pest of herbaceous plants; but high populations can damage flowers on woody plants, such as roses. Rose petals may develop dark streaks\u00a0and spots from feeding injury that occurred before the buds opened, or the flower buds may deform and fail to open. Western flower thrips also vectors Impatiens necrotic spot virus\u00a0and Tomato spotted wilt virus, which can severely damage or kill certain vegetable crops and herbaceous ornamentals.<\/p>\n

\"thrips<\/a>In the<\/strong>\u00a0April issue of\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cGreenhouse Management<\/strong>\u201d, Kansas State University professor and extension specialist in horticultural entomology and plant protection Ray Cloyd wrote that, \u201cWestern flower thrips are still the most destructive insect pest of greenhouse-grown horticultural crops, the reason being that western flower thrips cause both direct feeding damage to leaves and flowers and indirect damage by vectoring viruses. This results in a very low tolerance for this insect pest.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As stated earlier some species of thrips feed on other insects or mites\u00a0and are considered beneficial, while some feed on fungal spores\u00a0or pollen. Hence they hold a lot of ecological importance in our ecosystem.\u00a0In many thrips species, by the time their damage is observed, such as after buds open, the thrips may no longer be present. Thus instead of taking controlling remedies, one must look for effective preventive measures. Thrips can be difficult to control effectively with insecticides and pesticides, partly because of their mobility, feeding behavior, and protected egg and pupal stages. Also use of insecticides and pesticides are harmful to them as well to the ecological system.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0C Tech Corporation<\/a><\/strong>, we offer a safe and effective solution to deal with these insects.\u00a0Termirepel\u2122<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0non-toxic, non-hazardous product\u00a0that primarily repels insects from the application. It is a broad spectrum repellent which works against almost 500 species of pestering bugs thus efficaciously repulse them away from the application. The best feature of this product is that it is\u00a0environmentally safe\u00a0and causes no harm to the insect as well as humans and the environment. It is available in masterbatch and lacquer form and as a liquid solution. For prevention of damage caused by Thrips, films incorporated with Termirepel\u2122 can be used to cover the area or mulches can also be used to save the plants. Such films can also be wrapped around big fruits to prevent damage. This product work on the mechanism of sustainability and green technology and therefore significant in today\u2019s time and date as ecology salvation has become the prime focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thrips\u00a0(order\u00a0Thysanoptera) are minute, slender insects\u00a0with fringed wings. Other common names for thrips include thunder flies, thunder bugs, storm flies, thunder lights,\u00a0storm bugs,\u00a0corn flies\u00a0and\u00a0corn lice. Thrips species feed on a large variety of plants and animals by puncturing them and sucking up the contents. Some species of thrips feed on other insects or mites\u00a0and are considered … Continue reading Thrips on loose in your farms and gardens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}