Here’s how to manage these tiny pests.

Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic damage to leaves, fruit, and flowers.

Thrips are a difficult pest problem to spot, let alone to treat properly. If you suspect them, here's how to diagnose and ...

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more attractive to pests than that tender, juicy new growth. The new leaves are easy to puncture and full of sap and ...

Q: I have several roses in my yard, some that I pick to bring indoors. All the roses with the white and pink blossoms keep getting brown steaks in the flowers, making them look like they are diseased.

Warm days start stretching longer, flowers push green shoots through soil, and excitement builds about fresh tomatoes, roses, ...

Alias: Barley thrips are quite often hard to notice due to their size. They are approximately the size of pencil eraser shavings but can cause a lot of damage. They are usually darker in color, but ...

Sandiso Mnguni receives funding from the GENUS: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (Grant 86073). He is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Council Plant Health and Protection ...

Question: We saw these little bugs/insects on our friend’s orange tree in Tucson — near the Oracle and River roads area — and wondered what they were, and if harmful or not. First saw them about three ...

Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...

Alias: Barley thrips are quite often hard to notice due to their size. They are approximately the size of pencil eraser shavings but can cause a lot of damage. They are usually darker in color, but ...