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THRIPS ATTACKING MAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Stanley F. Bailey
Affiliation:
University of California

Extract

So many observations verging on the extraordinary and bizarre have been made of insect behavior that we no ionger are surprised to learn of insects appearing out of their normal environment. It is thus with interest rather than wonder that we note a few scattered references in entomological literature to thrips, normally considered phytophagous and to some extent predaceous, attacking man in a transitory manner.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1936

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References

page 95 note * Probably Melanthrips fuscus (Sulzer). See H. Priesner. 1928. Thysanopteren Europas, pp. 92–93, Wien.

page 97 note * Bailey, S. F. 1935. Thrips as vectors of plant disease. Journ. Econ. Ent., 28: 856–863.