1) Agricultural pest insect 2) Crop-eating insects 3) Garden menaces 4) Rose nuisance 5) Thrip 6) Thripid 7) Thysanopter 8) Thysanopteron 9) Thysanopterous insect
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1) Bug 2) Insects 3) Thrip 4) Thripid 5) Thripidae 6) Thysanoptera
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Thrips (Order Thysanoptera) are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings (thus the scientific name, from the Greek thysanos (fringe) + pteron (wing)). Other common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, thunderblights, storm bugs, corn flies and corn lice. Thrips species feed on a large variety of plants and animals by pu...
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[genus] Thrips is a genus of thrips. ==Ecology== Species in the genus Thrips feed on pollen, and can be major agricultural pests, with several being vectors of tospoviruses. ==Etymology== The name Thrips comes from the Latin word thrips meaning woodworm, itself borrowed from the Greek θρίψ. ==Diversity== Thrips is the largest genus of t...
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• (n.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
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any of approximately 5,000 species of insects that are among the smallest of the winged insects and are abundant in the tropical and temperate ... [1 related articles]
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Insects that feed on all parts of the plant: leaves, flowers, buds, and stems. Very popular in the destruction of daylilies (this word is both singular and plural).
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Thrips noun [ Latin , a woodworm, Greek ....]
(Zoology) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (
Thrips cerealium ). » The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious insects.
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n] - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any
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Thysanoptera - the Thysanoptera (thrips or thunderflies) are an Order of insects. They are small insects that can often be found on flower heads.
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thrip noun any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
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Any of a number of tiny insects of the order Thysanoptera, usually with feathery wings. Many of the 3,000 species live in flowers and suck their juices, causing damage and spreading disease. Others eat fungi, decaying matter, or smaller insects
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