At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more attractive to pests than that tender, juicy new growth. The new leaves are easy to puncture and full of sap and ...

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 ...

The invasive pests, known as short-spined thrips, may be microscopic, but they’re a menacing threat. South Florida’s warming ...

A novel UF study found the thrips had another trick up its sleeve. Females can reproduce without a male, giving birth to an ...

Lush homeowner gardens and thriving farms and nurseries across the globe are fighting a tiny invader considered one of the ...

Thrips are enjoying Florida's climate but you may not like them, especially the damage they can cause to your ornamental ...

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

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 ...

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 ...