RE: Different false alarms - now Thrips

["Paul" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Officially known as Thrips there are apparently over 6000 species world
wide (I'm now an expert!!!)



This may be worth a go :



Hot-pink sticky cards have been found to be the most attractive color for
trapping thrips, though blue is often still used. Sticky traps should be
placed 1 to 2 inches above the crop canopy so that the bottoms of the traps
are just above the crop, at the rate of one or two per 1,000 square feet.



Taken from:



http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/gh-thrips.html

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Robinson [mailto:ukcueman@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2003 15:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Different false alarms



> Sounds like you have an infestation of these
They've been a pain for me too in the last 3 days. That would be a mixture
of hot weather, the fields that I have on two sides of my house, and the
need to keep windows open to cool down. They seem to get everywhere.
There's
a large number of dead thunder flies beneath the light bulb in my study. It
seems they are attracted to the light and then get killed by the heat. I
think I'm going to get a UV bug killer.

Paul