Thrips

I thought I would share a realization (for those like me = thick headed) I had today. Way back in early spring I sprayed for thrips thinking it is the usual spring population explosion and the usual spraying or two and they would be gone.

Well here I am in August and I am still seeing these guys and their effects. Then I looked into a plumeria bud and saw several of them running about and I realized that I didn't spray my plumeria tree so guess what....

Thrips seem to really love plumeria buds, their scratchings don't show on my white & yellow blooms but they are all over them. Lesson learned, spray all flowering plants. Guess what I will be doing all over again this week?

Farmer D