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
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!
It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!
I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.
These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.
#bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae
You've heard of Weevil Wednesday, now get ready for #ThripsThursday.
#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/217574357
Happy #ThripsThursday!
The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.
I didn't expect to have content for #ThripsThursday, but here we are. Found on young maple leaves.
Is it…after so long…could it finally be… #ThripsThursday???
Possibly _Aeolothrips_, found on grasses at Scarborough Civic Centre. I think of thrips as plant pests, but this one apparently is a predator.
#bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #Aeolothripidae #macro
O to be a little thrips on a daisy
#bloomscrolling × a rare #ThripsThursday: the white campion in a local pollinator garden was covered with little black thrips! Of course I had to get a pic for you all.
neville park
Tallastro 🇺🇦