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Organic gardeners unfamiliar with thrips might bemoan their brown thumbs when plants develop discolored leaves and fail to thrive, seemingly for no reason. Closer inspection can reveal a horde of miniscule pests belonging to the order Thysanoptera, which includes several species of garden thrips that puncture leaves and feed on the plant juices within. Gardeners must use a combination of sanitary, cultural, biological, and organic spray control methods to kill these pests and the fight the diseases they carry.

Identifying Damage from Thrips

Thrips are so tiny, approximately 1 mm in size, that organic gardeners may have difficulty identifying the pests without the aid of a magnifying glass. Instead of viewing the pests directly, you can learn to recognize signs of thrip damage. Thrips feed on vegetable and ornamental plants using a combination of sucking and rasping, which causes a distinct speckled appearance, frequently at the tips of affected plants.

Thrips enjoy feeding on beans, onions, and squash in the vegetable garden. Thrips have an affinity for bright pink and blue colors, and they gravitate towards gladiolus and petunias in the flower garden. You can place pink or blue sticky traps around susceptible plants and inspect the cards with a magnifying glass to check for thrip infestations.

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