Thrips

Thanks nexttogone

Kind of freaky. Great find!

Thanks Scott.

Hi Jolly. Yes I did not see it, nor did I see it mentioned in your description. One can certainly see the nymphs in the new photo. BTW, I removed your footnote markers in the description because they were out of context. I moved one of your links from notes to references, which should be used if the spotting has a Scientific name. I found that some thrips guard the young through a "sterile guard caste" which isn't parental care, but that doesn't mean that parental care isn't perhaps happening here, so I have added your spotting back to the mission. Thanks

New picture uploaded to show the brooding behavior of this insect. However, I have not added it back to the Brooding behavior Mission pending the approval of the mission creator.

S Frazier, you might not have noticed that these adults are guarding their young. You can see the young on the lower left of the pictures. I will try to upload another picture which shows the young clearly.

Thank you for your interest in the Brooding behavior in insects and other invertebrates mission. However I do not see any depiction of a parent-offspring relationship in your spotting, and so have removed it from the mission.

That explains it that they travel by the wind! Great spotting!

It is also interesting to note that these insects are the size of 2 hair strands put together. That small.

I have never seen anything like this! Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Juan Di Trani for the ID.

Interesting!

These are Thrips