Thrips Identification Guide
characteristics
Behaviour and life cycle
Damage
Host plants
Females 1.2 mm long, males 1 mm.
Variable in colour, from yellow to dark
brown. 8 antennal segments [...] greenhouses found on
both ornamental and
vegetable plants.
Females 1.6 mm long, males 1.3 mm.
Dark brown to black and armoured. End
segments of legs yellow [...] strawberry,
chrysanthemum, tomato,
pepper, cucumber, rose
and gerbera.
Females 1.0-1.2 mm long, dark brown
to black. Dark forewings, but sharply
white near the