However, some thrips, including rose thrips, onion thrips, and western flower thrips, damage plants. They can weaken ...

Researchers experimented with the effect of red, white, black and combination-colored nets on deterring onion thrips from eating Kujo leeks, also called Welsh onions. In both lab and field tests ...

The onion thrips devastates a wide variety of important crops (including Welsh onions, cabbages, potatoes, melons, pumpkins, strawberries, cotton and more) by damaging their leaves and spreading ...

High rates of destruction have been recorded in Tanzania and Uganda on onion and tomato crops. Now it's emerged that thrips ...

Onion thrips - a fine white mottling on the foliage indicates an attack on onions or leeks. They're tiny yellow or black bodied insects about 2mm long and are particularly troublesome in hot ...

A recent study has found that red nets are more effective than black or white nets in preventing onion thrips from damaging crops. So, could red nets be the solution environmentalists have been ...

ANSWER: Thrips are marring the beauty of your gardenia ... place with clusters of small rocks added to the planters. Q: Our onions are producing large bulb portions, and the tops have started ...

Although red netting generally isn't used, a 2015 study showed that when crops were irradiated with red light, pest insects known as onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) tended to stay away from the plants.