Andrew Gladman (ADAS) talks about alyssum companion planting for control of thrips - both drawing the thrips away from the crop and also boosting populations of biocontrols like Orius. Exciting potential, should be interesting to see the system getting optimised.

Other parts of Europe have a predatory thrips licensed for biocontrol releases to control herbivorous thrips on strawberry - not yet in UK but maybe in future...? #AAB_IPPM #Thrips #CompanionPlanting #IPM

Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

#bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

Happy #ThripsThursday! To everyone except this thrips on a fallen peony petal who was promptly eaten by a whirligig mite. I 🧡 my whirligig mites.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Anystidae #Thysanoptera

May 23, 2025. We have trouble in the garlic bed, send help. A dozen consecutive plants are twisted and discolored. They were not visibly ill yesterday. The next rows are healthy at this time. The soil temperature is 55 F, 13 C. Nematodes and thrips are suspected. We sprayed three rows with neem oil this afternoon. We have a four year crop rotation. #gardening, #garlic, #minnesota, #nodig, #nematodes, #thrips.

Next time you see tiny thrips on a flower, remember: they might be doing vital pollination work! (9/9)
Read the full article 👉 https://doi.org/ph5h

#AoBpapers #Thrips #PlantScience #Pollination

🌱🌸 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators’ in @AnnBot by Cristina Pop and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/ph5h

#AoBpapers #Thrips #PlantScience #Pollination

These wee beasties (aka Thrips) are making a mess of our house plants. Trying diatomaceous earth for control.
#insects #thrips #HousePlants #PlantPests

Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

#bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera