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General information |
World Thysanoptera. A
CSIRO web site with information and links to various sources of
information about thrips - primarily their identification, systematics and
faunal patterns. |
| The home page of the IX International Symposium on Thysanoptera and Tospoviruses (ISTT09), which was held at Sea World Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from Monday August 31 to Friday September 4 2009. |
| A Lucid key to the Thrips of California is now available on the web (Hoddle MS, Mound LA, Paris DL. 2008. Thrips of California. CBIT Publishing, Queensland.) |
| A superb new book on thrips by Gerald Moritz. It is in German and costs
only 34.95 euros. See more information and order
online. Moritz, G. (2006) Thripse. Fransenflügler, Thysanoptera. Pflanzensaftsaugende Insekten. Band 1. Westarp Wissenschaften Verlagsgesellschaft, Hohenwarsleben, Germany. ISBN 3-89432-891-6. Softback, 350 pages, 105 illustrations. |
| A working searchable checklist of world Thysanoptera produced by Laurence Mound at CSIRO Entomology. It includes about 7500 species names and 1200 generic names. Bibliographic data will continue to be added progressively. |
| A searchable database of references to literature on thrips from the International Society for Pest Information (ISPI). |
| A scientific journal on thrips, published in Poland (ISSN 1733-7631).
The web page has English and Polish versions. http://thysanopteron.net |
| A large photo gallery of thrips mounted on microscope slides. http://thrips.w.interia.pl |
| Thrips fiction. A biotech-thriller starring thrips!! When a pocket of pesticide-resistant insects suddenly starts swarming, destroying crops, and killing people, the island of Oahu turns from a vacation paradise to a disaster zone... |
| A book on Acacia thrips in Australia. See the flyer
(pdf format 725KB). Crespi, B. J., Morris, D. C. & Mound, L. A. (2004) Evolution of Behavioural and Ecological Diversity: Australian Acacia Thrips as Model Organisms. ABRS & ANIC, Canberra. US$55. |
| An essay by Laurence Mound on Australian Acacia thrips on
the worldwidewattle web site. http://www.worldwidewattle.com |
| An identification key to the European and Mediterranean Terebrantia
has been published. It costs 95 euros (about 65 UK pounds or 118
US dollars) and is in German with 277 pages and 771 figures. Copies can be
ordered on the internet and invoices can be paid by credit card Visit the
publisher's bookshop
website and search for Strassen. Instructions are in English and
German. Zur Strassen, R. (2003) Die terebranten Thysanopteren Europas. Tierwelt Deutschlands 74. Goecke & Evers, Keltern, Germany. |
| Photo gallery from the "1st International Symposium on Palaearctic Thysanoptera", which was held in Gödöllö, Hungary in August 2003. |
| The home page of the "VII International Symposium on Thysanoptera (Thrips, Plants, Tospoviruses: the Millennial Review)", which was held in southern Italy in July 2001. The proceedings and various other resources are downloadable. |
| Thrips biology and management. A website designed to promote
knowledge of subtropical integrated pest management programs for thrips
and tomato spotted wilt virus in field-grown crops, from the North Florida
Research and Education Center, University of Florida. http://thrips.ifas.ufl.edu/ |
| University of California pest management guidelines for thrips in the home and landscape. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Information and pictures about pests in the family Thripidae from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA) in France, taken from the zoology part of the HYPP (hypermédia en protection des
plantes). [includes: Limothrips cerealium, L. denticornis,
Thrips meridionalis]. http://www.inra.fr/ |
| A summary of IPM for greenhouse thrips on both vegetable and ornamental crops
by Lane Greer and Steve Diver of ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas). http://attra.ncat.org/ |
| "Thripsnet" - all sorts of information about thrips by Gerald
Moritz of the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. http://www.biologie.uni-halle.de/org/thripsnet |
| Factsheet on thrips in glasshouses by Stanton Gill et al. of Maryland Cooperative Extension, University of
Maryland, USA. http://extension.umd.edu/ |
| "Thrips as Crop Pests" by Trevor Lewis, published in 1997. A massive (740 pages) review.
Purchase it online. http://www.cabi.org/ |
| Thrips and tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on peanuts in the USA, with downloadable research papers by
Forrest L. Mitchell. http://stephenville.tamu.edu/ |
| Thysanoptera type specimen holdings at the Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, USA (mainly Moulton specimens). http://www.calacademy.org/ |
| Key to eleven species of thrips found in glasshouses, including Frankliniella
occidentalis, Thrips palmi and Echinothrips americanus,
from North Carolina State University. http://ipm.ncsu.edu/ |
| A list of the Thysanoptera recorded from Australia, prepared by Laurence
Mound, CSIRO Canberra, Australia. It includes unpublished information. http://www.ento.csiro.au/ |
| Information about fossil thrips and thrips in Germany provided by Gert
Schliephake. http://www.schliephake-thrips.de |
Frankliniella occidentalis |
| Downloadable pdf document on the biology and management of the western flower thrips by Clifford S. Sadof
and Raymond A. Cloyd of Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, Indiana, USA. http://www.entm.purdue.edu/ |
| A report on "Pest Thysanoptera of Mediterranean Fruit Trees",
mainly on molecular biology and biological control of the western flower thrips. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ |
| Download a PhD thesis in pdf format: Dublon, I.A.N.
(2009) The aggregation pheromone of the western flower thrips. PhD
thesis, Keele University, UK. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aep |
| Download a PhD thesis in pdf format: MacDonald, K.M.
(2002) The alarm pheromone of the western flower thrips. PhD
thesis, Keele University, UK. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aep |
Thrips palmi |
| The species name refers to Dr Palm, an Indonesian entomologist. The species is not known to breed on palms! |
| A list of about 200 Japanese references on Thrips palmi translated into English, in Word format or in RIS format (for import into bibliographic software). |
Other thrips |
| Information about the chilli thrips Scirtothrips dorsalis
from IFAS Extension, University of Florida. http://www.mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/ |
| Biology and management of the avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae Nakahara) by Mark S.
Hoddle, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA. http://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/ |
Home pages of thrips researchers in alphabetical order (some with links to publications) |
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Henrik Brødsgaard (Denmark) |
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Carl C. Childers (USA) |
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Bernard J. Crespi (Canada) |
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Joe Funderburk (USA) |
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Mark S. Hoddle (USA) |
| William D.J. Kirk (UK) |
| Gerald Moritz (Germany) |
| Laurence A. Mound (Australia) |
| Michael P. Parrella (USA) |
| L. Irene Terry (USA) |
| Diane Ullman (USA) |
e-mail: caep@keele.ac.uk
Last updated: 29 September 2009 09:16
