Tables are scrambled and illustrations are omitted. View, read, or make a reprint of this item in its original format, including tables and illustrations. Go to homepage of Florida Entomologist on WWW for more information about this service. The melon thrips, Thrips palmi Karny, is one of the most important vegetable pests damaging pepper, eggplant, bean and cucurbits in South Florida. Eggs are laid in the leaf tissue.
Life cycle consists of two aerial feeding stages and two subterranean non-feeding stages.
There have been only a few reports on the efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi. When plants had 3 to 4 leaves, they were inoculated with 50 T. palmi larvae taken from a laboratory colony. Strain origin of Beauveria bassiana and Paecilomyces fumosoroseus tested on Thrips palmi. BbH Cosmopoltes sordidus Germ. Apopka, Florida Four groups of 10 infested bean plants were tested.