Thrips
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Thrips, commonly known as thunderflies or thunderbugs, are minute, slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Entomologists have described approximately 7,700 species; they
Thysanoptera
Typical Tubulifera thrips: the feathery wings are unsuitable for the leading edge vortex flight of most other insects, but support clap and fling flight.
Asymmetric mouthparts of Heliothrips
Parallelothrips separatus, Myanmar amber
Tomato spotted wilt virus
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Tomato spotted wilt virus is a spherical negative-sense RNA virus. Transmitted by thrips, it causes serious losses in economically important crops and it is one of the most economically devastating pl
Thrips
…of emerging plant pathogens around the world, with those vector species having an outsized impact on human agriculture. Virus members include the tomato spotted wilt virus and the impatiens necrotic spot viruses. The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, has spread until it now has a worldwide distribution…
Tomato with Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
Symptoms of tomato spotted wilt virus on basil