# Damn Thrips

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734 "2012-04-14T02:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/1 "2012-04-14T02:50:30Z")

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Deceptively fluffy little bastards, sucking on my orchids.  
I hunt them down every day with a Q-Tip soaked in alcohol, yet they keep coming back.  
When one of my ineptly cared for orchids actually produces flowers, they attack the buds and blooms.  
Bastards.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/2 "2012-04-14T04:12:11Z")

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I’m Thorry to hear that.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/3 "2012-04-14T13:15:25Z")

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I’ll trade you my whiteflies for your thrips, even up, and I’ll throw in a few mealybugs too.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/4 "2012-04-14T13:49:45Z")

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There’s a little parasitic wasp here that devours white fly. They are already at work on the Hibiscus that I took outside.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/5 "2012-04-14T14:22:06Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> There’s a little parasitic wasp here that devours white fly. They are already at work on the Hibiscus that I took outside.

If those parasitic wasps over-breed, I hear aphids will eat them.🆒

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-thrips/618734/6 "2012-04-14T14:37:19Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> If those parasitic wasps over-breed, I hear aphids will eat them.🆒

That’s sort of like the Introduce-Bunnies-to-Australia-What-Can-Go-Wrong thing, isn’t it?