How do you identify a ‘thrips intruder’?
September 20, 2021
length, shape of the antenna, hairs on the head and thorax, pattern on the head and thorax, fringe and hair on the forewings, and pattern on the forewings. Get [...] rules of thumb. Echinothrips americanus is the easiest to identify: these thrips have black and orange stripes on the abdomen. Remember that Thrips setosus [...] while americanus is very lazy. The latter is often found in groups low in the crop, and you will almost never find them on the sticky traps. In short, a busy