Thrips Identification Guide
high densities, leaves
and fruit turn brown and growth is
reduced. Vector of TSWV and other
viruses.
Q-organism in the EU and not
present, but sometimes [...] on
onion and leek, in
greenhouses found on
both ornamental and
vegetable plants.
Females 1.6 mm long, males 1.3 mm.
Dark brown to black and armoured. [...] leaves and eventually leaf death and
abscission. The species is not known to
transmit viruses.
Ornamental plants
(rose, gerbera), pepper,
cucumber and aubergine