The life cycle consists of five stages: egg, larval, prepupal, pupal and adult. Female adult western flower thrips live up to 30 days and lay 2-10 eggs per day. At 20°C, development from egg to adult takes approximately 19 days. At 25°C, it takes 13 days. The eggs are inserted into soft plant tissues, including flowers, leaves, stems and fruit. In sweet pepper, egg hatch gives the leaves a speckled appearance, with the degree of speckling corresponding to the number of hatched eggs. The larval stage (see Figure 2) consists of 2 instars that feed and develop on the leaves, flowers and fruit. The prepupal and pupal stages often complete their development on the ground or growing medium, but pupation can also take place on the plant. The pupa (see Figure 3) is a non-feeding stage during which the wings and other adult structures form.
The adults are weak fliers, usually taking short flights from leaf to leaf or plant to plant. Nevertheless, they disperse rapidly throughout the greenhouse. Adult thrips can be transported on wind currents and will enter the greenhouse through vents and doorways. At all stages they may be dispersed on workers’ clothing and on infested plants, growing media or farm implements.
because it’s too cold in the rest of the basement. 1st pic is 3bears OG auto and 2nd pic is c99xbb. they’ve just been under a single screw in 11w LED bulb or something and they’ve outgrown it. i’ll prob transplant them and set up their own space with 24hr lighting this week, prob my 235w blurple.
i should have just gotten a 3x3 for vegging!