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THE FLORIDA BUGGIST 
This is our common cereal thrips and is often abundant on oats in 
the spring and damages them materially. 
Franklinothrips vespiformis (Crawford). (Crawford, ’09.) 
Orlando, late February to summer on leaves of citrus. (AVolothrips 
vespiformis Back, 712.) 
FAMILY THRIPIDAE 
Thrips quinciensis Morgan. (Morgan, 713.) THE QUINCY THRIPS. 
Quincy, collected by A. C. Morgan and G. A. Runner on Pinckneya 
pubens Mx. 
Thrips spinosus Morgan, (Morgan, 13.) THE MAGNOLIA THRIPS. 
Quincy, May 1910. Collected by A. C. Mason and G. A. Runner in 
blossoms of Magnolia grandiflora. 
Gainesville, May 1915-17, in blossoms of Magnolia grandiflora. 
This thrips may be found quite abundantly in practically all Mag- 
nolia blooms and has been found nowhere else. 
Thrips tabaci Lindeman. (Redescribed by Hinds, ’02, p. 179.) THE 
ONION THRIPS. 
Lake City, 1897-8. On onions, cabbage, cauliflower, and crabgrass 
(Panicum sanguinale). (Quaintance, ’98.) 
Gainesville, Nov.-June, on onions. 
Generally distributed, probably in every onion field in the State, arid 
does great damage every year. It is the most serious enemy of 
onions in the State. Affected onions are characterized by white 
blanched and dying tips. For remedies see Bull. 134, Fla. Ag. Exp. 
Sta. Cosmopolitan in its distribution. 
Thrips abdomalis Crawford. (Crawford, 710, p. 157.) 
Quincy, March ’09. Collected from tobacco by H. F. Wilson; May 
17, 1910, on Senecio by G. A. Runner and A. C. Morgan. (Mor- 
gan, 713.) 
Key West, April 238, 1912. “Miscellaneous collecting” by G. A. 
Runner and A. C. Morgan. (Morgan, ’13.) 
Gainesville, Oct.-Nov., 1913, on Solidago and other composites. 
Extends north to Maryland and Illinois, and west to Mexico. 
Plesiothrips perplecus (Beach). (Beach, ’95.) (Thrips perplexus, 
Hindss:023) 
Quincy, Sept. 8, 1909, on grass. (Morgan ,’13.) 
Extends north to Maryland and Iowa, and west to Texas. 
Heliothrips haemorrhodalis Bouche. (Redescribed by Hinds, ’02.) THE 
GREENHOUSE THRIPS. 
Miami, Sept. 1915; 1908, collected by P. J. Webster on mango and 
avocado. (Russell, ’09.) 
Orlando, on foliage of Acer rubrum. (Black, 712.) 
Gainesville, Jan. 28, 1913, in a greenhouse; May 1917, very destruc- 
tive to Coleus out of doors. 
In the northern states this insect is confined to greenhouses, hence 
the name. But in Florida it is common about gardens and orna- 
mentals out of doors. 
