Pest group
Thrips
Slender, fast, hide in buds and folds; silvery scars with black specks, distorted flowers.
Which one do I have?
- Chilli thripsScirtothrips dorsalisAn invasive thrips from Asia, established in Florida since 2005 and now a pest in Texas too. It attacks the newest leaves, buds and fruit of roses, peppers, citrus and hundreds of other plants, leaving them bronzed, curled and stunted. It breeds so fast that numbers can double in about eight days.Roses · Pepper · Strawberry · Citrus
- Banded palm thripsParthenothrips dracaenaeA dark thrips with banded wings that lives year-round on tough-leaved houseplants: palms, ficus, dracaena, schefflera and monstera. Adults and larvae feed on the leaves and turn them dull and silvery, and the damage is permanent. It is the thrips the RHS names on monstera.Houseplants · Monstera & aroids
Still not sure? Answer four questions about the damage and the picker will separate them.
macro · thrips, side by side
At a glance
- Species
- 2 profiled
- Controls
- 0 beneficials
- Settings
- Garden, Field, Under glass, Indoors
- Crops
- 6 host crops
Thrips by crop
Each page is one species on one host: the host-specific control, rate and threshold.
- On pepperChilli thrips
- On monstera & aroidsBanded palm thrips