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