Thrips, Thunderbugs, Corn Lice

Short video showing the tiny Thrips insect. They are not good fliers, although the wind can carry them for miles. They are a common garden pest that can serve as vectors for plant diseases, like viruses and tospoviruses.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Thrips
• Thysanoptera
• Thunderflies
• Thunderbugs
• Storm Flies
• Thunderblights
• corn lice
• Wood Lice
• wood louse
• western flower thrips
• Frankliniella occidentalis

[HealthyHomeGardening]

@Spillage66 - Here's what I would have said "Hey, your thrips look totally different than the thrips in the UK, they remind me of aphids". instead of "I know one type of thrips, and that's not it, therefore it's an aphid".

Did you forget about your post on my channel? I would avoid doing that to people, it's not polite.

[Spillage66]

@HealthyHomeGardening Let me just finally write this... "Sorry mate, what you call corn thrips etc, and what we do, are different things." Had I known, I would have posted. As is, I was Google searching videos of corn flies/thrips, and yours was chosen. I had no idea the whole chips/fries caravan trailer business was going on. Linguistic differences. I did not say they were green fly, and I didn't take the piss and patronise you. You did that. I shan't continue, as you're just gleaning hits .

[HealthyHomeGardening]

@Spillage66 - Sorry Mate, you just aren't doing so good at this. I could tell you knew you were clearly wrong after I pointed out the morphology of the two orders. Now you think that throwing a temper tantrum will add some validity. This is about whether or not the statement you made in the first post is true. It's been demonstrated false. I knew you were just a troll from comment one. I'm just doing research on human confirmation bias. Please continue.

[Spillage66]

@HealthyHomeGardening You are a fucking robot! You cannot understand anything, unless the context is in an insturuction book format! I said originally, "They look like aphids to me." NOT that they ARE! I am not going to reiterate. I did not say that the Greek or Latin names had anything to do with it! I simply stated that corn flies were called so, in Europe, before in the Americas, so I'm not the narrow minded ignoramus. So it's a matter of "You say patato, and I say potato". Simple.

[HealthyHomeGardening]

@Spillage66 - Tell me how do you say Thysenoptera in English? That's why the Greek-Latin naming system was implemented to communicate in different languages.

And just like I thought, you were talking about ONE species. Thinking that this entire ORDER of insects would all look just like they do on your little island. Can you admit that? How are you not wrong? You made an assertion that this is an aphid.

[Spillage66]

@HealthyHomeGardening You are trolling (or baiting) me. It makes no difference where this takes place, as long as it is aimed at the person you choose to troll. Yokel? I think you need to get your facts straight. I'm neither a yokel, or an egotist. Neither am I wrong. Your yank term is different to the English term, and the species was probably recognised long before your society existed. We refer to Ponticulothrips diospyrosi, as the thunder fly/bug/ corn fly/thrips. That should be the end.

[HealthyHomeGardening]

@Spillage66 - Apparently you don't know what a Troll is. One cannot troll their own channel. --Or are you inviting me to go to your channel and make comments on your vids?

Yes, we've been through this, and you were wrong, then we went through it again, and you were still wrong. It's hard for a yokel like yourself to admit he's wrong isn't it? This is more about your insecure ego than biology isn't it?

[Spillage66]

@HealthyHomeGardening Troll all you like! I said that those things on your video look more like aphids, than thrips. That's because... Oh, I've gone through this, and you're just taking the piss. You are either purposefully taking it the wrong way, and manipulating the situation, or you are a robot! They are NOT the same corn flies, anatomically , as our corn flies. That is where the confusion lies. Now shut up.

[HealthyHomeGardening]

@Spillage66 - No, we are talking about the differences between Hemiptera (aphids) and Thysanoptera (thrips). It doesn't matter if you are in China, these are universal. I thought even the grade-school Texans would know that. Actually, now since I'm not learning anything from you, we are going to be talking about a jawflapper from the UK who goes around on people's channels, spouting off things he doesn't know, then when he's proven wrong (repeatedly) he starts dancing.

[Spillage66]

@HealthyHomeGardening Calm down! How am I insulting America? I was merely pointing out that there are differences between American terminology and English terminology. What you call thunder flies and thrips, is something different to what the rest of the world does. Over here, (And, as far as I have seen...) corn flies are tiny little itchy bastards, usually black and about a millimetre long, with short legs and a long abdomen.