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Biology

Response/Regulation

• NEW! The FPDN invites you to attend a Chillithrips workshop August 7, 2007 in Apopka, FL. Read more here.
• The chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis, was detected in Florida on October 7, 2005. This pest has been moving around primarily in the ornamentals industry on roses, but it is very polyphagous and a threat to many crops.

• Ecology and Management of S. dorsalis (3.2 MB PPT)
• History, Background, and Overview of S. dorsalis
(4.2 MB PPT)
• Sampling and Identification of S. dorsalis  (2 MB PDF)
• Current Research Updates (1.4 MB PPT
•  FDACS-DPI pest alert is available at: http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/chillithrips.html
• Dr. Lance Osborne, UF entomologist,  has a website at: http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/thripslinks.htm
• CSIRO chilli thrips information page at http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_s/b_3697.htm
• EPPO data sheet (PDF)-
• Powerpoint and poster on this thrips
• UF/IFAS EDIS publication on chilli thrips control

• NEW! The FPDN invites you to attend a Chillithrips workshop August 7, 2007 in Apopka, FL. Read more here.
• Florida Department of Agriculture Regulatory Response (90 kB PPT)
• FDACS-DPI pest alert is available at: http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/chillithrips.html