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Old 11-05-2003, 06:32 PM
Radika Kesavan
 
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Default problem with my roses-need help

Me wrote:
I was fishing through my roses and stuck my fingers through a rose that's
just blooming.

It looks like there are ants in the rose, or something small and black.

Are those ants, what do "thrips" look like?
I noticed them in two of my yellow roses.



Craig,

Here are some pictures of thrips and thrip damage:

http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/...owerthrips.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/...thrips-dam.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/...hrips-dam2.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/...hrips-dam4.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/...hrips-dam5.jpg

And this is an excellent site for all manner of rose diseases and pests,
set up by Dr. Baldo Villegas, an entomologist who lives and works in
Sacramento:

http://members.tripod.com/sactorose/irosepests.html

Remember that Cass, Torgo and myself were all very impressed with the
health of the foliage in that picture whose link you posted. I doubt
very much that you have thrip damage on that rose, and also, it is a bit
too early for that - it is more likely when the temperatures get get
quite high.

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15