A 2021 research paper found that in Indonesia "the damage to red chili plants caused by thrips infestation ranges now from 20% to 80%". In India, various thrips infestations in the late 2010s and ...

Now it’s emerged that thrips are hardly new to the African continent and the southern hemisphere more broadly. South Africa’s first and only Black palaeoentomologist, Sandiso Mnguni ...