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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

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

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

Happy #ThripsThursday! To everyone except this thrips on a fallen peony petal who was promptly eaten by a whirligig mite. I 🧡 my whirligig mites.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #bugstodon #insects #thrips #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Anystidae #Thysanoptera

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

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

You've heard of Weevil Wednesday, now get ready for #ThripsThursday.

:inaturalist: #iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/217574357

#bugstodon #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

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

I didn't expect to have content for #ThripsThursday, but here we are. Found on young maple leaves.

#bugstodon #Thripsday #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera

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

O to be a little thrips on a daisy

#ThripsThursday #insects #thrips #Thysanoptera #macro

#bloomscrolling × a rare #ThripsThursday: the white campion in a local pollinator garden was covered with little black thrips! Of course I had to get a pic for you all.

#insects #Thysanoptera #thrips

Oh shit, it's #ThripsThursday!

I've seen these candy-cane-like thrips on silver maple a couple times. At least, I'm pretty sure they're thrips. If anyone has a better idea, suggest it on #iNaturalist?

:inaturalist: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/152288883

#Thysanoptera #thrips #insects #bugstodon @bugid

Second-instar nymph of Haplothrips subtilissimus inside a gall on dodder that was made by a weevil (it's complicated). I have no idea how it got in there. Maybe hatched from an egg inserted into developing gall by parent (thrips have serrated ovipositors). Species is reported to be predaceous on mites and various arthropod eggs but in this case perhaps was consuming the beetle or one of its ectoparasites (wasps). #thrips #Thysanoptera #entomology #insect #galls #nature

If anyone would like to see some great thrips pics, check out Manfred Ulitzka's site. Just incredible. #thrips #entomology #macro #photography #Thysanoptera

http://www.thrips-id.com/en/photo-video/macros/