Photo by Drees.
Adults are small, yellowish and have hair-fringed wings that are usually held across the back.
Immature thrips are similar to adults but are wingless. Some thrips species are predaceous on other arthropods. Adult female thrips insert eggs into plant tissues. This sword-like mandible is extruded when the mouth cone is compressed on plant tissue. The extruded mandible slashes open epidermal cells.