Two-year study by Caltech Ag scientists shows Agrothermal Systems® heat-treatments to be equal or more effective than pesticides and at lower costs per acre NAPA, Calif., October 29, 2018 ...

A University of Florida scientist has published a study in the journal Insects that provides new products for battling invasive thrips parvispinus. The thrip is a tiny, elusive insect that has spread ...

A research team has found that field populations of the thrips Megalurothrips usitatus and Thrips palmi in China have developed high resistance to multiple insecticides, presenting significant control ...

Lush homeowner gardens and thriving farms and nurseries across the globe are fighting a tiny invader considered one of the world's most damaging pests. The short-spined thrips, scientifically known as ...

For years, thrips management in horticultural crops relied on a combination of scouting, corrective interventions, and ...

Plant diseases and insect infestations are a constant challenge for gardeners. Thrips are one such insect that can plague your indoor and outdoor plants by literally sucking the life out of them.

The Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA) has started a research contract with the S.A.T. La Plana de Burriana company to evaluate the effect of metalized plastic covers on pest and ...

Tammy is on the lookout for thrips – a sap-sucking pest that can affect plants indoors or out. These tiny flying insects – usually only 1-2mm long – but when lots of them attack a plant they can do a ...

It was bad enough that our region’s cold, wet spring affected our tomato plants’ ability to produce a normal crop. When an unusual insect problem arose on them as well, I began taking it personally.

Q. How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long), slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic ...