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They feed on plant sap and many are destructive
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thrips
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrips \Thrips\, n. [L., a woodworm, Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips ( Thrips cerealium ). Note: The term is also popularly applied to various other small ...
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n. any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive [syn: thrip , thripid ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Thrips (order Thysanoptera ) are minute, slender insects with fringed wings (thus the scientific name , from the Greek θύσανος thysanos ("fringe") + πτερόν pteron ("wing")). Other common names for thrips include thunderflies , thunderbugs , storm flies ...
Usage examples of thrips.
It can be used as a contact and stomach poison as well as a repellent against flies, roaches, aphids, fleas, thrips, leafhoppers, Whiteflies and some kinds of beetles.
They are particularly effective on aphids, earwigs, leaf hoppers, sawflies, leaf miners, spider mites, thrips, scale and Whiteflies.
Lacewings came in, bristle-tails, ants, thrips, springtails and - oh ye gods - scorpions.
This is especially good for insects that are too small for you to see or handpick effectively, like aphids, thrips and spider mites.
All the others are too small for most people to be aware of, but they do excellent work controlling Whiteflies, thrips, caterpillars and other pests in the garden.
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae—and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae -- and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae - and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
The rapid redeployment of differentiated energies one picks up as one Thrips can be toxic.
When one Thrips there is no time or space-at least not as we understand it.