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Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci slender insects with fringed wings that pupate underground. They are seasonally transported on rain/wind storms. They feed by puncturing plant tissue and sucking out the cell contents. Nymphs and adults may damage the terminal buds and flowers, causing flower drop, leading to no seed development, which, under heavy infestation, can lead to yield losses of up to 100%. On herbs, they aggregate in the buds, feeding on succulent new leaves, resulting in misshapen leaves, thickening and scarring of leaf tissue, and occaisionally holes in leaves. other predators such as bugs, ladybirds, lacewing larvae, ground beetles, Staphilinid beetles and robber flies are capable lowering thrip numbers. Monitor frequently for thrips. Use yellow sticky traps to check for thrips presence and quantity. Use early deep plowing. Use crop rotation. In greenhouses, use fine mesh exclusion screening. Use silver reflective mulch. artisanal extracts of garlic abamectin spinosad Weeds, several grasses and broadleaf weeds Numerous weeds compete with young herb plants Monitor and identify predominant weeds to make a management plan. Avoid planting carrots in fields last planted to cereals or in fields with known infestations of perennial weeds. To prevent the buildup of weed seed in the soil, cultivate weeds before they set seed in rotation crops. Soil solarization can be used to control most weeds in carrots. Do not practice close cultivation with machinery or hoe, risk of damage to roots is too high. No treatment threshold found. glyphosate, pre-plant PESTS AND DISEASES OF UKRAINE ANIMAL FODDER CROPS: bent grass, bluestem grass, orchard grass, fescue, ryegrass, timothy grass, alfalfas, clovers, vetches
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