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How To Deal With Thrips

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Recently, many friends have discovered that from time to time there are some unknown flying insects crawling on the clothes, sometimes dozens or even hundreds, often appearing is a large area. This unidentified flying insect looks like this.

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Thrips on the plant


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Thrips like green and yellow particularly


What is the these flying insects? Is there any harm to the human body and plant?


Sometimes we can also find this black bug under the tree. This black, small body, sharp head and tail, it is thrips. Thrips usually live on trees and appear in April and May, October and December each year (about 20 degrees Celsius). Mainly affects plants growth. Thrips are especially common in sunny, warm and dry weather. There are relatively few rainy days, because in rainy days their growth and reproduction are slower and their activities are also slower.


Effect For Human

Thrips basically do not bite, but there are also some people who experience itching after being exposed to thrips. This is because they are allergic to the acid secreted by thrips. On the other hand, thrips seem to particularly like yellow and green. The editor did an experiment and we put a yellow board next to the green plants. In just a moment, the whole board was covered with thrips.

Thrips are harmless to the human body. It will not inhale the blood of animals, but it should be prevented.


Effect For Plant

For plants, thrips are more harmful to plants. Everyone should also pay attention to the plants being planted.

How to deal with thrips


- Do not slap it

We found that the thrips fell on the body, and immediately shake off the worms. If it falls on our skin, don't slap to death. Not only thrips, but other unknown bugs should not be slapped to death when they fall on the skin, so as to prevent it from secreting some venom and causing harm to our body. If you are injured by a thrips, you only need to drive away the thrips, and then apply body lotion to the stinged area.


- Take care of color

Wear less brightly colored clothes in spring. Because thrips like yellow, green, silver gray and so on. So if you want to prevent thrips, you have to wear less clothes of this color.


- Cover anti-insect netting

Anti-insect netting is an economical and origanically protection method. HDPE insect netting can not only physically shield thrips, but also can be reused. It not only protects the environment but also significantly reduces the cost of disinfestation.

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- Keep some pesticides

This is a more expensive method than insect nets, which has instant deworming effect, but it is easy to cause soil compaction and pesticide residues.


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