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
#Amblyseius #mite patrolling a leaf of
#Alocasia #puncakborneensis in search of #thrips
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
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
🌱🌸 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)
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!
Sarah Arnold
neville park
Marco Hackney
Pollinators
Annals of Botany
Chuckling Duck