The spread of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)

By W. Kirk, L. Terry. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science

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In Ecology

1. Tariq M. Butt
2. S. Reitz
3. F. A. Shah
4. R. Cloyd

In Insect Science

1. Tariq M. Butt
2. M. Ansari
3. F. A. Shah
4. Yu-lin Gao
5. Z. Lei
6. M. Brownbridge
7. R. Srinivasan
8. S. V. Joseph

Citations in the corpus

• Biology and Ecology of the Western Flower Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): The Making of a Pest (2009, background): “Western flower thrips is now established throughout North America, and many countries of Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia (Kirk & Terry 2003).”
• Thrips: Pests of Concern to China and the United States (2011, background): “The western flower thrips F. occidentalis, which is native to western North America, received little attention as a pest until a pesticide resistant strain emerged from California greenhouses in the 1970’s and subsequently spread rapidly around the world (Kirk and Terry 2003; Reitz 2009).”
• Prey suitability of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, and onion thrips, Thrips tabaci, for the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii (2008, background): “Frankliniella occidentalis was introduced to Europe in the 1980s and is now widely established in the Mediterranean area, whereas T. tabaci is native to Europe (Lewis 1997; Kirk and Terry 2003; CAB International 2007).”
• Thrips Vectors of Tospoviruses (2011, background): “It is one of the most studied thrips species worldwide (Salguero Navas et al. 1991a,b; Kirk 2002; Groves et al. 2003; Kirk and Terry 2003; Reitz 2008, 2009).”
• Life history of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysan., Thripae), on five different vegetable leaves (2007, background): “The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysan., Thripae) was first described in 1895 from specimens collected in California, USA, and has become a major global pest of agricultural and horticultural crops since the late 1970s (Kirk and Terry 2003).”
• Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) Management on Ornamental Crops Grown in Greenhouses: Have We Reached an Impasse? (2009, background): “Distribution of infested plant material is one of the primary means of long-distance spread of WFT (Brodsgaard 1993; Kirk and Terry 2003).”
• Efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi against soil‐dwelling life stages of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, in plant‐growing media (2008, background): “Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a pest of global significance on a wide range of economically important crops; the thrips cause direct feeding damage and are able to vector several plant viruses (Daughtrey et al., 1997; Kirk & Terry, 2003).”