Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...

Insects are numerous on area landscape plants after a long, productive summer. To check for problem spots walk around weekly and look for insect activity. Check both old and new growth, plant stems ...

While chilli thrips, a new invasive insect pest, are causing severe damage to ornamental plants throughout the Houston area, it appears Hurricane Ike may have spread the pest further, said Dr. Scott ...

Though they are only about 2 mm -- little more than one-sixteenth of an inch -- long, chilli thrips can cause substantial damage. The blotchy discoloration of the rose leaf is evidence of feeding by ...

Horticultural experts are warning Houston gardeners to watch out for a new pest that has wreaked havoc on roses and other plants in Florida for about two years. According to Scott Ludwig, a Texas ...

HYDERABAD: Thrips Parvispinus, an invasive pest species, might have dominated or even replaced the native chilli thrips known as scirtothrips dorsalis, the Rajya Sabha was told on Friday. The change ...

Chilli growers in Andhra Pradesh will likely bring more area under the cultivation of the spices crop next season (October 2022-September 2023) despite a new pest, black thrips, wreaking their crop ...

India’s red chilli production has rebounded during 2022-23 and the crop is seen higher by up to a third as farmers gained control over the invasive pest black thrips that had wrecked havoc in the key ...

New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana faced 40-80 per cent damage to the chilli crop due to pest outbreak, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Friday. Tomar, in his ...

The widespread damage to chilli crops caused by leaf curl thrips has left farmers in a state of shock. The chilli cultivation area had gone up by nearly 30% over the last season as the chilli had been ...

Hot days and dry Santa Ana winds have been the kickoff for chilli thrips season for the past five years in many California rose gardens. The following are the inconvenient truths you need to know ...