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title: "Entomology here, if you know… you know. 🤣 Best guesses welcome!"
description: "Entomology here, if you know… you know. 🤣 Best guesses welcome!"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/NOeel8HHadfdNKx0gsphF6"
community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Pothos Palace"
published: "2025-09-25T15:01:55.084127Z"
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# Entomology here, if you know… you know. 🤣 Best guesses welcome!

_Posted by Pothos Palace on 2025-09-25_

Entomology here, if you know… you know. 🤣

Best guesses welcome!

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## 6 comments

### Bay Area Plant Mom commented on 2025-09-25

why they kinda cute tho

#### chloe replied on 2025-09-25

LMFAOO not till they're on ur plants and eating them

#### Pothos Palace replied on 2025-09-26

They punch the ish outta their food with their mouth parts and then eat the fluids. Fun facts of the day.

#### Pothos Palace replied on 2025-09-26

Haha! They’re so small! Had to take the first pic for hw. 😂

### Phil commented on 2025-09-25

I think we all know they are thrips.

#### Pothos Palace replied on 2025-09-26

Hey I didn’t, I’m newer to plants and still learning, but I’m also in Entomology and got to learn about them from a bug perspective not a house plant perspective.

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