Thrips Identification Guide
day. Developmental time at
25°C is 13 days (measured on
cucumber).
Both adults and larvae cause damage
that appears as a silvery streaking or
whitish blotches [...] egg
laying, and a complete generation
develop within a single gall. Adults exit
galls and migrate to new terminal leaves
to begin a new generation. The [...] the substrate.
Feeding causes a greyish colouration of
the leaves and eventually leaf death and
abscission. The species is not known to
transmit viruses