“…Besides onions, it is known to infest around 300 plant species, including economically important crops such as tobacco, leek, cabbage, pea, melon, lettuce, potato, tomato, carnation (Diaz‐Montano, Fuchs, Nault, Fail, & Shelton, 2011; Lewis, 1997; Mandal et al., 2012). Thrips tabaci is also a vector of two viral pathogens, Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) (Srinivasan et al., 2012) and Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) (Pittman, 1927) causing significant disease around the world (German, Ullman, & Moyer, 1992).…”