Thrips
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thrips-206-5244878
title:
Thrips
text:
Thrips are minute, slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Entomologists have described approximately 7,700 species. They fly only weakly and their feathery wings are unsuitable for conventional flight; instead, thrips exploit an unusual mechanism, clap and fling, to create lift using an unsteady circulation pattern with transient vortices near the wings. Thrips are a functionally diverse group, with nearly half of the known species being fungivorous. A small propo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Order of insects
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrips
date created:
2003-11-18T13:32:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:01:38Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Thysanoptera.jpg","width":436,"height":200}
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13
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