Towards understanding thysanoptera

Abstract

Thirty-one papers and three posters on the systematics, biology, behavior and management of Thysanoptera, with particular reference to Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel), pear thrips, presented at an international conference in Burlington, Vermont.

Titles contained within Towards understanding thysanoptera

• An introduction to the Thysanoptera a survey of the group
• Space, time and thrips: biogeographic issues in the evolutionary ecology of Thysanoptera
• Systematics of Thysanoptera, pear thrips and other economic species
• Feeding, flight and dispersal in thrips
• Structure of the mouthparts of Frankliniella bispinosa (Morgan) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• Chemical ecology of the Thysanoptera
• Potential causes of the pear thrips outbreak in sugar maple
• Agroecological niches and thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) dynamics
• Development of sampling methods for the slash pine flower thrips Gnophothrips fuscus (Morgan), (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
• Soil sampling and extraction methods with possible application to pear thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• The pear thrips problem
• What's a sugar maple worth?
• Bioecology of pear thrips: distribution in forest soils
• Analysis of thrips distribution: application of spatial statistics and Kriging
• Aerial spray trials for pear thrips management fall 1988
• Remarks on the physiological effects of defoliation on sugar maple and some impacts on syrup production
• Pear thrips damage and impact on the Vermont sugarmaker
• Root starch in defoliated sugar maples following thrips damage
• The economics of a threatened tradition
• The relationship between measures of tree vigor and pear thrips damage in sugar maple
• Detection of pear thrips damage using satellite imagery data
• Integrated pest management and the pear thrips
• Herbivory by Thrips tabaci
• Aerial spray technology: possibilities and limitations for control of pear thrips
• Biology and impact of Thrips calcaratus Uzel in the Great Lakes Region
• Western flower thrips, a serious pest of floricultural crops
• Thrips on stone fruits: formative stage of pest management
• Thrips biocontrol: opportunities for use of natural enemies against the pear thrips
• Greenhouse thrips, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis, in California avocado orchards: biological control studies
• Biological control of citrus thrips, Scirtothrips citri, by predaceous phytoseiid mites
• Orius insidiosus (Say) and entomopathogens as possible biological control agents for thrips
• A computer-compatible key to the genera of the Tubulifera (Thysanoptera)
• The life cycle of pear thrips, Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel) in Vermont
• A method for extracting pear thrips from forest soils

Citation

Parker, Bruce L.; Skinner, Margaret; Lewis, Trevor; eds. 1991. Towards understanding thysanoptera. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-147. Radnor, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 464 p.