Posts Tagged: thrips
Targeting Thrips
If you grow tomatoes, you ought to be concerned about thrips. They're pests of fruits,...
George Kennedy, the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at North Carolina State University, stopped to count thrips during a vacation to Mt. St. Helens. (Photo by Scott Kennedy)
Did Anyone Say "Insect-Vectored Pathogens?"
We're still in the throes of January but already UC Davis entomologist Diane Ullman and her...
UC Davis entomologist Diane Ullman is a key organizer of the two conferences focusing on insect-vectored pathogens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Delightful Damselflies
When an egret swooped down and ate all the goldfish in our fish pond--quite a smorgasbord of...
Damselfly with water mites (see egglike mass). The insect next to it is probably thrips, according to Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Damselfly resting in the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A blue damsefly brightens the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Attacking Thrips
Thrips, those tiny little critters about a millimeter long or less that wreak economic havoc to...
Western flower thrips. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark, courtesy of entomologist Diane Ullman)