How to Use thrips in a Sentence
thrips
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Check for thrips, scale, mealy bugs, necrotic leaves and the like.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
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Or thrips hitting the flowers at the right (or wrong) time might be the cause of it.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2020
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Let the native predators pick off scale, mealy bugs, thrips, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
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These heroes are our greatest weapons in our fight against chilli thrips.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
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Oh, and that isn’t counting the unknown numbers of teensy mites, aphids and thrips.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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The only pest that seems to deliver a knockout punch with these roses is the chilli thrips.
—Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2020
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Hot days and dry winds are prime weather conditions for chilli thrips.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
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Weak in the Weeds Weeds are favorite hiding places for earwigs, thrips, and other pests and viruses.
—Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
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Keep checking daily for chilli thrips, and bag cuttings.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
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Another telltale sign of thrips presence is the gift of frass specks glued to the leaf; frass is the term for insect excrement.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
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Hasegawa said the thrips transmit INSV through feeding, much in the same way that mosquitos can transmit pathogens to humans.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
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And so far, none of those little black thrips are clinging to peonies or other flowers.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2021
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Most likely, tiny yellow to brown insects called thrips can be seen running about.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2022
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Bug Burger Bugs like thrips and aphids have to be tiny indeed to pepper our food with their parts without us noticing.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
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This treatment should also help avoid mealybugs, mites, thrips, and whiteflies.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
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Common pests are aphids, mealybugs, thrips, whiteflies, spider mites, and scale.
—Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2021
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Try spreading a reflective mulch, such as aluminum foil, between rows to confuse the thrips.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
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In San Diego, chilli thrips are our biggest pest problem and may require pesticides.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
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Chilli thrips larvae and adults extract sap from new growth and tender buds with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
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These kill soft-bodied pests such as aphids, thrips, crawler-stage scale insects, whiteflies, leafhoppers, and mites.
—Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
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These insects---a new genus of thrips, insects that still scuttle around today---had likely gathered pollen for food, trailing it from plant to plant along the way.
—Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2012
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The culprits here are sucking insects such as leaf hoppers, aphids, thrips, chilli thrips, leaf miners or spider mites.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
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Control white flies, aphids, thrips, and leafhoppers by setting out bright yellow sticky traps.
—Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
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Aphids, mites, thrips, mealybugs, scale and whitefly are typical hitchhikers, and could be lurking under foliage, on stems, or even among the roots.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
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To eradicate thrips, Lalicata washes her plants in the shower and treats the leaves with an insecticide or neem oil.
—Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
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Pythium wilt is a soil-borne disease, while INSV is transmitted to lettuce by small insects known as western flower thrips.
—Jaewon Kang, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
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Take, for example, the fact that there were no thrips covering mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius, this year.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2022
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At the conservatory, Natoli hoses the undersides of leaves with water to handle thrips and spider mites.
—Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
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Spinosad also controls caterpillars, squash vine borers, some beetles and thrips.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
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In 1997, Cuba accused the United States of spreading a crop-eating insect called thrips palmi on Cuban potato plantations.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2015
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