Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and other closely related tospoviruses are serious threats to many agricultural, ornamental, and greenhouse crops. TSWV was first recorded in the southeastern United States during the middle to late 1980s (10,12,16,19,23), with the first collections of the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), following shortly thereafter. In North Caroli...

Orius insidiosus (Say) and O. pumilio (Champion) were confirmed to be sympatric in north central Florida as the major predators of the Florida flower thrips, Frankliniella bispinosa (Morgan), on flowers of Queen Anne's lace, Daucus carota L. and false Queen Anne's lace, Ammi majus L. F. bispinosa was the predominant thrips observed on both flowers but colonized D. carota to a greater extent an...

Tospoviruses are considered to be dependent on Thysanoptera for their existence in nature, but scarcely 0.15% of Thysanoptera species (9 of 5500) are known to be vectors. Moreover, these vector species are not closely related to each other, suggesting either that many thrips species have lost an association with tospoviruses or that each Tospovirus species has evolved an independent relationshi...

During November 2021, a new invasive thrips Thrips parvispinus was recorded in chilli growing areas of Telangana state. In India, this pest first reported on papaya (Carica L.) and later Brugmansia sp. (Solanaceae) Dahlia rosea Cav. (Asteraceae). Based these reports alert received from ICAR-NBAIR, Bengaluru, survey carried out major Anand district Gujarat Incidence T. noticed during the survey....