Thrips (Thysanoptera)


Thrips (singular and plural) are small, slender, flattened insects found on living and dead plants and fungi, and on the ground. They feed on plant or fungal material, or on other small invertebrate animals. Manu plant-feeding species are serious economic pests. Thrips have uniquely modified sucking mouthparts; the wings (if present) are in two pairs and fringed with long hairs, as in many other very small flying insects.

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Thrips (Thysanoptera)

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Discussion

HelenCross wrote:
13 Jul 2024
Thanks Alison, wasn't sure. I'll put them back to insect

Phlaeothripidae sp. (family)
AlisonMilton wrote:
13 Jul 2024
@HelenCross Hi Helen, I don't think these are beetle larvae.

Phlaeothripidae sp. (family)
14 May 2024
Hi can you please put he 2nd and third images in as seperate sightings as one contains a spider and one a soft=winged beetle = while this image is mainly of thrips

Thysanoptera (order)
kasiaaus wrote:
17 Mar 2024
BTW. In the third photo, the thrip is in the bottom right hand corner.

Thysanoptera (order)
kasiaaus wrote:
11 Feb 2024
Yes Roger, there are two beetles in this photo as described in sighting 4551981 but the thrips are also there just very small and that is what I intended to show.

Thysanoptera (order)
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