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What is a thrips?

What is a thrips? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
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Inspect your plants regularly for insects such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, and other noxious pests, whether indoors or outdoors.
There are a few pests to watch for that like fuchsias such as spider mites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and fuchsia gall mites.
What most gardeners call thrips are the larvae of a flying insect entomologists group in the suborder Terebrantia.
Green lacewings, like ladybugs, diminish aphid and mealybug populations, as well as thrips.
Insects such as ants, mealy bugs and thrips have been found in 37 out of 43 shipments, which then needed fumigation.
The most important of these include a predatory spider mite, the mite destroyer beetle, the six-spotted thrips and the minute pirate bug.

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