Thrips Biology and Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction to Thrips/Plant Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Thysanoptera as Phytophagous Opportunists

      • Laurence A. Mound, David A. J. Teulon

      Pages 3-19

   3. Feeding Behavior and Nutritional Requirements

      • William D. J. Kirk

      Pages 21-29

   4. Thrips Feeding and Oviposition Injuries to Economic Plants, Subsequent Damage and Host Responses to Infestation

      • Carl C. Childers, Diann S. Achor

      Pages 31-51

   5. Impact of Pear Thrips Damage on Sugar Maple Physiology: A Whole-Tree Experiment

      • David S. Ellsworth, Melvin T. Tyree, Bruce L. Parker, Margaret Skinner

      Pages 53-58

3. Pest Problems in Field, Forest and Glasshouse Crops

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Bionomics of Cotton Thrips: A Review

      • Thomas F. Leigh

      Pages 61-70

   3. Impact and Economic Threshold of Thrips tabaci on Onions

      • François Fournier, Guy Boivin, Robin K. Stewart

      Pages 71-76

   4. Patterns of Pear Thrips Activity in the Northeastern United States, 1990–1992

      • Craig S. Hollingsworth, Janet J. Knodel, William M. Coli, John S. Weaver

      Pages 77-80

   5. Development and Abundance of the Pear Thrips in a Connecticut Apple Orchard

      • Chris T. Maier

      Pages 81-84

   6. Predicting Phenology of Pear Thrips Emergence in Pennsylvania Sugar Maple Stands

      • Michael A. Foster, David A. J. Teulon, E. Alan Cameron

      Pages 85-88

   7. Pear Thrips Emergence and Foliar Damage

      • Margaret Skinner, Bruce L. Parker

      Pages 89-92

   8. Position and Abundance of Pear Thrips Eggs in Sugar Maple Flowering and Vegetative Buds

      • Tracy C. Leskey, David A. J. Teulon, E. Alan Cameron

      Pages 93-95

   9. Thrips calcaratus-Induced Defoliation and Subsequent Foliar Suitability

      • Lynne K. Rieske, Kenneth F. Raffa

      Pages 97-100

   10. Thrips obscuratus: A Pest of Stonefruit in New Zealand

       • David A. J. Teulon, David R. Penman

       Pages 101-104

   11. Major Pest Thrips in Taiwan

       • Niann Tai Chang

       Pages 105-108

   12. Thrips of Vegetables in Thailand

       • Kobkiati Bansiddhi, S. Poonchaisri

       Pages 109-109

   13. Thrips Population Trends in Peppers in Southwest Florida

       • Galen Frantz, Felicia Parks, H. Charles Mellinger

       Pages 111-114

   14. Pepper Varietal Response to Thrips Feeding

       • Gregg S. Nuessly, Russell T. Nagata

       Pages 115-118

Thrips (fhysanoptera) are very small insects, widespread throughout the world with a preponderance of tropical species, many temperate ones, and even a few living in arctic regions. Of the approximately 5,000 species so far identified, only a few hundred are crop pests, causing serious damage or transmitting diseases to growing crops and harvestable produce in most countries. Their fringed wings confer a natural ability to disperse widely, blown by the wind. Their minute size and cryptic behavior make them difficult to detect either in the field or in fresh vegetation transported during international trade of vegetables, fruit and ornamental flowers. Many species have now spread from their original natural habitats and hosts to favorable new environments where they often reproduce rapidly to develop intense damaging infestations that are costly to control. Over the past decade there have been several spectacular examples of this. The western flower thrips has expanded its range from the North American continent to Europe, Australia and South Africa. Thrips palmi has spread from its presumed origin, the island of Sumatra, to the coast of Florida, and threatens to extend its distribution throughout North and South America. Pear thrips, a known orchard pest of Europe and the western United States and Canada has recently become a major defoliator of hardwood trees in Vermont and the neighboring states. Local outbreaks of other species are also becoming problems in field and glasshouse crops as the effectiveness of insecticides against them decline.

• Insecta
• Tempo
• Thysanoptera
• development
• predator
• Tree Biology

`The editors are to be congratulated in compiling this volume which should not be missing from the bookshelf of any thysanopterist, agronomist or entomologist, encountering this unusual but fascinating order of insects.'
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1998

• The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

  Bruce L. Parker, Margaret Skinner

• Institute of Arable Crops Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK

  Trevor Lewis

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