![Figure 1. Female vespiform thrips showing constricted waist and white band. Credit: Runqian Mao, University of Florida](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/edis/wp-content/blogs.dir/65/files/2015/08/in1083-fi.jpg)
Vespiform Thrips Franklinothrips vespiformis Crawford (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae)
July 31, 2015
Franklinothrips vespiformis Crawford is a predatory thrips with a pantropical distribution. The distinctive red, humped-back larvae and fast-moving ant-like adults are predaceous on small arthropods. In addition to being easily mistaken for ... READ MORE
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