Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic damage to leaves, fruit, and flowers.

Here’s how to manage these tiny pests.

Thrips are thin, tiny winged insects that are hard to see with the naked eye. However, despite their small size, they are bad news for your garden. These bugs can puncture plant tissue and suck out ...

Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

Sandiso Mnguni receives funding from the GENUS: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (Grant 86073). He is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Council Plant Health and Protection ...

Warm days start stretching longer, flowers push green shoots through soil, and excitement builds about fresh tomatoes, roses, ...

In a perfect world, a rose garden would have no pests. This is wishful thinking and is never going to happen. So, the second-best option in a rose garden is that the pests be easy to spot. “Plain view ...

Red nets are better at keeping away a common agricultural insect pest than typical black or white nets, according to a new study. Researchers experimented with the effect of red, white, black and ...