Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive.
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Examples for "thrips "
Examples for "thrips "
1 Will the distillate emulsion-nicotine spray control brown scale as well as thrips ?
2 The thrips and the disgusting rose-bug were also making havoc here and there.
3 How can the presence of pear thrips be detected in a prune orchard?
4 The large, showy tobacco-worm and the tiny tobacco- thrips cause serious injury to the leaves.
5 Be on the lookout for thrips , blister mites, red-humped caterpillars, flat-headed borers, pernicious scales.
1 The herring-gull was a silver line-aboutas big as a thrip - to seaward .
2 The thrip to shore was not enough, and he's taking a wee turn further.
3 Tell me, did you see no wan there inquirin' afther me good health this last thrip ?
4 Kentucky can go to the devil, half the stations be wiped out, and not a thrip do they care.
5 Being an expert on the pear thrip mattered in Vermont, because pear thrips liked to eat maple tree leaves.
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