#thrip

[fieriframes]

[Thrip.]

[gamergenia]

[every-day-creechur]

Aeolothrips spp.

A genus of thrips, mostly from the northern hemisphere, but some of found in the subtropics. They are mostly 1 mm long or smaller and feed on flowers, but some species are predators of mites.

image by Ben Jobson

[saltycharacters]

[ID: Artwork featuring cartoon depictions of different bugs. First is a lineless drawing of a Band-eyed Drone Fly, alongside a photograph of a living specimen taken by the artist. Next to it are two pen sketches of a mantis, accompanied by Russian words that translate to “Praying Mantis” and “Bug”. Finally, there is a smattering of stylized arthropods plastered across the canvas, depicting things from weevils to flies to millipedes and more. They are tinted with a rainbow hue. End ID]

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[poisonder]

Artfight revenge for garlandmoon!

[waspfreak]

For once ever man's posting, time to contribute to the thrip tag with my thrip tat (should get two more to make it a thriptych)

[usgsbiml]

Katy Evans, who is studying the pollination ecology of Edamame Soybeans, took a series of shots of said soy at our lab.  In this series you will see varieties of complete and dissected flowers of Edamames.  Farmers know that soybeans are self-pollinated (Edamame is just variety of regular old soybeans, ditto Titan soybeans (note:  I just threw Titan soybeans in as extra soybean credit....look those up I just learned about them).  But soybeans have flowers for a reason and they attract bees, sometimes quite a few, though you won't notice them because soybean flowers are shy and sit below their canopy, but they are there.  Soy yield increases with visitation by bees. So there is a story here that impacts both the market and the bees (given the acreages involved this could be BIG!), but we know little of either detail.   Katy has already found all sorts of interesting edamame pollination things but you will have to wait for the publication to learn about them.  Oh, check the photos out for hidden insect images.  There were thrips and plant bugs running about leaving their ghost images here and there.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Insectember Day 9: Found this buff specimen while looking up reference images for yesterday’s illustrated insect guide. That’s some impressive arms on Lichanothrips pastinus! XD