Thrips Identification Guide
laying, and a complete generation
develop within a single gall. Adults exit
galls and migrate to new terminal leaves
to begin a new generation. The life cycle [...] substrate.
Feeding causes a greyish colouration of
the leaves and eventually leaf death and
abscission. The species is not known to
transmit viruses.
Ornamental [...] leaves. Feeding also results in
a specific, directed growth reaction that
causes the leaf to roll, or the leaf may
fold along the midrib.
Ficus benjamina.