Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to plant pests, thrips are as bad as they come. They attack and infest hundreds of different varieties of plants.

One of my favorite flowers to cut and bring in the house in the summer are gladiolus. A question often raised is “how do you prevent thrips in gladiolus?” Thrips seem to be the biggest pest for this ...

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 ...

Thrips are thin, tiny winged insects that are hard to see with the naked eye. However, despite their small size, they are bad news for your garden. These bugs can puncture plant tissue and suck out ...

ONTARIO, Ore. — Anitha Chitturi has researched thrips for a decade. Most recently, she’s focused on managing the tiny insects in the Treasure Valley onion crop — including by reducing their appetites.

Spring — when garden and landscape plants sprout new growth — is the time plant-damaging insects are at their peak. Getting the jump on these pests is the most effective way to ward off any potential ...

Do you have a nectarine tree that has a history of producing scarred misshapen fruit? If so, the damage to the fruit is probably caused by western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and the ...

LARAMIE – For grass seed producers and others concerned about controlling grass thrip populations, the University of Wyoming Extension has released a new management guide. The free digital publication ...

Recent data from Statistics Netherlands shows that biological pest control was used in 94% of greenhouse crop cultivation in ...