Thrips Thysanoptera
The thrips are a small order of minute insects which live mostly on plants.
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Thrips are elongate, soft insects with piercing mouth parts used to suck plant fluids or more rarely fungal or animal tissue. Most thrips are winged, and the wings have a unique and easily recognizable structure. Both fore- and hind wing is very narrow and fringed with long hairs which significantly increase the effective area of the wing. Thrips are best known as pests on crop plants; a less well known fact is that thrips, like wasps and termites, are among the very few insect groups which have developed true sociality.
