predatory thrips??
hey all! so i know there are different kinds of thrips and i was wondering if anyone knew how to identify them. on one of my plants the thrips are very small, and i can smoosh them with my finger, and they will die. on another plant though, the thrips are much larger and are actually like hard? i try and kill them with my finger and they just don’t die. the bigger thrips are also way more active and i actually see them flying around in my greenhouse cabinet, compared to crawling around on the plant. i just wanna know if they are beneficial and if i shouldn’t kill them? here are some pictures for comparison 1st pic is the bigger ones, 2nd is the small ones, then 3rd is compared next to eachother. #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #PestControl #GrowLights #annapop
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@BeesZenGarden @ForFoxSake here’s the bigger ones next to a fungus gnat, are they just like baby fungus gnats? and i’m freaking out for no reason??
@annapop I’m really not an expert at this… I thought thrips were tiny and you couldn’t reslly see them, only the damage they cause?… 🤔
At first, when you said they were hard, I thought of flying ants. But in the other pictures, they do look like little mosquitoes.
It so hard to tell sometimes in a picture. But I don't think they are beneficial.
Thanks for the tag, @WickedValkyrie 😁
It so hard to tell sometimes in a picture. But I don't think they are beneficial.
Thanks for the tag, @WickedValkyrie 😁
@sarahsalith in my ikea greenhouse cabinet, i have an air conditioner in my window, and i think one might’ve gotten in through that, and then the cabinet is pretty warm so it’s probably the perfect environment😭 i got some diatomaceous earth that i will put on the soil for now.