Ability to Respond Total:14 / 25Ability to Respond = ( Ease of Response + Tools in Place )
Confidence:High
Confidence Notes:
Impact
Spread
Notes
Score
Spread Rate
Potential to spread rapidly, the adults are good fliers for a small insect, they typically infest protected parts of plants (within flowers, developing tissues, plant terminals, etc.). Small size and habits makes them a subject for movement with plants.
5
Spread Amount
Detected in Florida in 2005, Georgia and Texas in 2007, Louisiana in 2009, and California in 2015. It has also been detected in HI and the Caribbean, and occurs in Australia and throughout Asia.
5
Damage
Notes
Score
Ecological
Potential hosts include threatened or endangered species. Increased insecticide usage could threaten environmental quality.
1
Agricultural
Very broad host range, >150 species in 40 families including many common landscape species and important food and fiber crops (asparagus, onion, cotton, beans, strawberry, tomato, grape, and citrus), reported vector of several plant pathogens.
5
Infrastructure
0
Cultural
Wide host range of garden and ornamental plants, and reported vector of several plant pathogens.
2
Health
0
Benefit
Notes
Score
Ecological
0
Agricultural
0
Infrastructure
0
Cultural
0
Health
0
Total
18
Ability to Respond
Ease of Response
Notes
Score
Detection
Thrips pests (due to their small size and feeding habits) are hard to detect, once collected id is challenging because of the small size and the numerous species in this group, specialists and/or molecular techniques are required for clear identification.
2
Control
Insecticides are effective but secluded feeding habits, high fecundity, ability to develop insecticide resistance, difficulty to kill, etc. are detrimental; biological control, cultural control, etc. play a role, but no obvious guaranteed control method.
