date:Jun 14, 2019
d, 77 percent were infected with IYSV. The investigators found that thrips infected with IYSV lived 3.6 days (or 22 percent) longer on average than uninfected thrips. They found no significant difference in fecundity, however, between infected and uninfected thrips. The results of the study were published in late May in the open-access Journal of Insect Science