One of my favorite flowers to cut and bring in the house in the summer are gladiolus. A question often raised is “how do you prevent thrips in gladiolus?” Thrips seem to be the biggest pest for this ...

Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long), slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic damage to leaves, fruit and flowers. Except in cases of very severe infestation, they rarely cause enough damage to ...

Thrips on the leaves of a houseplant - Zhuravlev Andrey/Shutterstock When it comes to plant pests, thrips are as bad as they come. They attack and infest hundreds of different varieties of plants.

Thrips are thin, tiny winged insects that are hard to see with the naked eye. However, despite their small size, they are bad news for your garden. These bugs can puncture plant tissue and suck out ...

Q: How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic ...

A blue grama grass seed field sits in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. (Gary White Photo) For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrips populations, University of Wyoming ...

ONTARIO, Ore. — Anitha Chitturi has researched thrips for a decade. Most recently, she’s focused on managing the tiny insects in the Treasure Valley onion crop — including by reducing their appetites.

Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...

Do you have a nectarine tree that has a history of producing scarred misshapen fruit? If so, the damage to the fruit is probably caused by western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and the ...