Thrips Identification Guide
Broad range of host
plants, both vegetable
and ornamental plants.
Females 0.8 -1.0 mm long. Males
smaller and very rare. Light yellow to
brown in colour. [...] thrips, all stages
found mainly in flowers.
Fruit damage in strawberry, vector of
TSWV, INSV, TCSV.
Broad host range of flowering plants
with pollen. Damage [...] Pronotum with
1 pair of long setae in the lower row.
Comb not present.
Present on leaves and in leaf
axils. Often swarming in
enormous numbers during