How to Use thrips in a Sentence

thrips

noun

• Check for thrips, scale, mealy bugs, necrotic leaves and the like.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
• Or thrips hitting the flowers at the right (or wrong) time might be the cause of it.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2020
• Let the native predators pick off scale, mealy bugs, thrips, etc.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
• These heroes are our greatest weapons in our fight against chilli thrips.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• Oh, and that isn’t counting the unknown numbers of teensy mites, aphids and thrips.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• The only pest that seems to deliver a knockout punch with these roses is the chilli thrips.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Hot days and dry winds are prime weather conditions for chilli thrips.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Weak in the Weeds Weeds are favorite hiding places for earwigs, thrips, and other pests and viruses.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
• Keep checking daily for chilli thrips, and bag cuttings.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• Another telltale sign of thrips presence is the gift of frass specks glued to the leaf; frass is the term for insect excrement.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• Stressed plants can be infested by soft green aphids, thin and dark flower thrips, or tiny spider mites.
  — Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
• Hasegawa said the thrips transmit INSV through feeding, much in the same way that mosquitos can transmit pathogens to humans.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• And so far, none of those little black thrips are clinging to peonies or other flowers.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2021
• Most likely, tiny yellow to brown insects called thrips can be seen running about.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2022
• Bug Burger Bugs like thrips and aphids have to be tiny indeed to pepper our food with their parts without us noticing.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
• This treatment should also help avoid mealybugs, mites, thrips, and whiteflies.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• Common pests are aphids, mealybugs, thrips, whiteflies, spider mites, and scale.
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Try spreading a reflective mulch, such as aluminum foil, between rows to confuse the thrips.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
• In San Diego, chilli thrips are our biggest pest problem and may require pesticides.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
• Chilli thrips larvae and adults extract sap from new growth and tender buds with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• These kill soft-bodied pests such as aphids, thrips, crawler-stage scale insects, whiteflies, leafhoppers, and mites.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
• These insects---a new genus of thrips, insects that still scuttle around today---had likely gathered pollen for food, trailing it from plant to plant along the way.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2012
• The culprits here are sucking insects such as leaf hoppers, aphids, thrips, chilli thrips, leaf miners or spider mites.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• Control white flies, aphids, thrips, and leafhoppers by setting out bright yellow sticky traps.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
• Aphids, mites, thrips, mealybugs, scale and whitefly are typical hitchhikers, and could be lurking under foliage, on stems, or even among the roots.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• To eradicate thrips, Lalicata washes her plants in the shower and treats the leaves with an insecticide or neem oil.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
• Pythium wilt is a soil-borne disease, while INSV is transmitted to lettuce by small insects known as western flower thrips.
  — Jaewon Kang, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• Take, for example, the fact that there were no thrips covering mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius, this year.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2022
• Ann is relatively pest resistant but can have problems with scale, weevils, thrips, and snails.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
• At the conservatory, Natoli hoses the undersides of leaves with water to handle thrips and spider mites.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024