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  1. @CurlyParakeet

    And there's a whole order of these #insects, all generally referred to as "thrips". Here is one of the largest species, Idolothrips spectrum. It feeds on dead Eucalyptus leaves, and this one was in my garden in #canberra

    #Entomology #Thysanoptera

  2. Today's whirligig mite (family Anystidae) menu:

    - a plant bug nymph (family Miridae)
    - another whirligig mite, or an old exoskeleton maybe?
    - a thrips
    -a small midge-like fly of some sort

    Out of sheer curiosity I captured about half a dozen decently sized whirligig mites and put them on the brown-eyed Susan (_Rudbeckia triloba_) plants which are currently covered in large black aphids. (They do not seem to appreciably harm the plants, which will only mature and bloom much later in the year.) I am not sure if they'll even stay on the plant given how erratically they run around, nor if they'll go for the aphids.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #mites #arachnids #insects #thrips #flies #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae #Thysanoptera #Diptera

  3. Today's whirligig mite (family Anystidae) menu:

    - a plant bug nymph (family Miridae)
    - another whirligig mite, or an old exoskeleton maybe?
    - a thrips
    -a small midge-like fly of some sort

    Out of sheer curiosity I captured about half a dozen decently sized whirligig mites and put them on the brown-eyed Susan (_Rudbeckia triloba_) plants which are currently covered in large black aphids. (They do not seem to appreciably harm the plants, which will only mature and bloom much later in the year.) I am not sure if they'll even stay on the plant given how erratically they run around, nor if they'll go for the aphids.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #mites #arachnids #insects #thrips #flies #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae #Thysanoptera #Diptera

  4. Today's whirligig mite (family Anystidae) menu:

    - a plant bug nymph (family Miridae)
    - another whirligig mite, or an old exoskeleton maybe?
    - a thrips
    -a small midge-like fly of some sort

    Out of sheer curiosity I captured about half a dozen decently sized whirligig mites and put them on the brown-eyed Susan (_Rudbeckia triloba_) plants which are currently covered in large black aphids. (They do not seem to appreciably harm the plants, which will only mature and bloom much later in the year.) I am not sure if they'll even stay on the plant given how erratically they run around, nor if they'll go for the aphids.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #mites #arachnids #insects #thrips #flies #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae #Thysanoptera #Diptera

  5. Today's whirligig mite (family Anystidae) menu:

    - a plant bug nymph (family Miridae)
    - another whirligig mite, or an old exoskeleton maybe?
    - a thrips
    -a small midge-like fly of some sort

    Out of sheer curiosity I captured about half a dozen decently sized whirligig mites and put them on the brown-eyed Susan (_Rudbeckia triloba_) plants which are currently covered in large black aphids. (They do not seem to appreciably harm the plants, which will only mature and bloom much later in the year.) I am not sure if they'll even stay on the plant given how erratically they run around, nor if they'll go for the aphids.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #mites #arachnids #insects #thrips #flies #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae #Thysanoptera #Diptera

  6. Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

  7. Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

  8. Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

  9. Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

  10. Today I went on a local native plant garden tour and, perhaps predictably, immediately got distracted by bugs. Look at this log positively teeming with pretty red thrips eating the fungus!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

  11. So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

  12. So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

  13. So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

  14. So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

  15. So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

  16. Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  17. Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  18. Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  19. Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  20. Pals, I am very sad I could not find a weevil for Weevil Wednesday. But I *did* find thrips for #ThripsThursday! Found in young maple leaves around the community garden in Christie Pits. Look how skinny it is!

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  21. It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!

    I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.

    These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae

  22. It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!

    I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.

    These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae

  23. It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!

    I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.

    These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae

  24. It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!

    I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.

    These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae

  25. It's #ThripsThursday and I've learned about a new plant to check for thrips: lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_)!

    I am familiar with wool carder bees using it, but didn't think to look for other bugs on it.

    These were just in people's front yards and they could easily have seen me suspiciously scoping out their plants and accosted me, and if so I was *totally* ready to enthuse at them about thrips. Perhaps sensing this, no one did.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #florespondence #bloomscrolling #Lamiaceae

  26. Happy #ThripsThursday!

    The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.

    #Thripsday #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  27. Happy #ThripsThursday!

    The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.

    #Thripsday #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  28. Happy #ThripsThursday!

    The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.

    #Thripsday #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  29. Happy #ThripsThursday!

    The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.

    #Thripsday #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

  30. Is it…after so long…could it finally be… #ThripsThursday???

    Possibly _Aeolothrips_, found on grasses at Scarborough Civic Centre. I think of thrips as plant pests, but this one apparently is a predator.

    #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #Aeolothripidae #macro