Insecticide for plants

What is a thrips insecticide?

A thrips insecticide is a plant protection product designed to control or eliminate thrips—small sucking insects that attack a wide variety of plants. These insects cause damage by feeding on the sap of leaves, stems, and flowers, resulting in silver spots, deformities, and overall plant weakening. Insecticides may work through contact, ingestion, or systemically, either directly affecting the insect or disrupting its life cycle.

Why use thrips insecticides on marijuana plants?

Thrips insecticides are essential for protecting marijuana crops from sap-sucking insects. Some key benefits include:

• Effective pest elimination: Significantly reduces or eradicates thrips populations, stopping the damage caused by their feeding.
• Prevention of serious damage: Protects leaves, flowers, and fruits from symptoms like silver streaks, deformities, leaf curling, and plant stress.
• Plant health maintenance: With no pest pressure, plants grow stronger and healthier.
• Preservation of yield and crop quality: Especially important in cannabis and fruit crops, where appearance and production are critical.
• Prevention of disease transmission: Thrips are vectors for viruses and other diseases. Reducing their population limits spread.
• Improved plant aesthetics: For ornamental plants, fewer thrips means more attractive foliage.
• Control at all life stages: Some insecticides target eggs, larvae, and adults, offering complete pest management.

Types of thrips insecticides

Insecticides may work via contact, ingestion, or systemic absorption, directly harming the insect or interfering with its life cycle. Common types include:

What is the best thrips insecticide?

The best choice depends on factors like plant type, infestation severity, and your preference for chemical or organic solutions. Our store offers various products tailored to your specific cultivation needs.

Most popular thrips insecticides

Multiprotection Boom

Multiprotection Boom by Boom Nutrients is a product designed to prevent and combat common cannabis pests and fungi such as whitefly, aphids, spider mites, and powdery mildew. It also strengthens the plant’s natural defenses and slightly promotes growth due to its nitrogen and amino acid content. Recommended for preventive use from early growth (2 ml/L every 10 days) and for curative action with three targeted treatments (3 ml/L).

ProNeem Neem Cake

ProNeem by Trabe is a high-performance organic insecticide made from 100% natural neem seed cake. It is ideal for protecting crops from sap-sucking insects, both preventively and curatively. Apply it mixed into the substrate, via irrigation or foliar spray. Use at each transplant and as a preventive treatment every 10 days.

Top organic thrips insecticides

Solabiol Natural Insecticide & Acaricide

Solabiol by Bayer is a natural product ideal for late-stage cultivation. With natural pyrethrins, it requires just a 4-day pre-harvest interval. It works on whitefly, aphids, mites, and spider mites by contact but is not effective against thrips. Certified for organic use, it contains rapeseed oil and is safe and easy to dose. Apply by spraying 10 ml/L weekly on both indoor and outdoor crops.

Bio Neem Prot-Eco

Bio Neem is an organic fungicide made from neem seed extract, effective against fungi like Botrytis, mildew, and rust, and leaves no residue in plants or soil. It also strengthens plant defenses against pests and biotic stress, improving overall plant health and productivity. Apply preventively or curatively via foliar spray (1–2 ml/L) or irrigation (2–3 ml/L). Discontinue use two weeks before harvest.

Spruzit® Insecticide - Acaricide

Spruzit® by Neudorff is an eco-friendly foliar insecticide made with natural ingredients like pyrethrin (from chrysanthemums) and rapeseed oil. Effective at all insect stages, it targets adult nervous systems and suffocates eggs. Leaves no toxic residue and doesn’t harm plants or consumers. Certified for organic farming, it degrades quickly in sunlight, reducing resistance risk. Apply 10–15 ml per liter by spraying both sides of leaves, avoiding peak sunlight hours.

High-quality systemic insecticides

Top systemic insecticides offer effective, long-lasting protection against tough pests like thrips. Absorbed through roots or leaves, they circulate within the plant’s vascular system, making the sap toxic to insects. They require fewer applications and are ideal for severe infestations. Highly effective options include:

Tripack Protección Boom

Tripack Protección Boom by Boom Nutrients includes 100% natural plant-extract insecticides that protect without harming crops. It contains:

• Spider Boom (nettle and chia-based) for spider mites
• Soil Care Boom (Ascophyllum Nodosum algae) for soil pests and root stimulation
• Fungi Boom (horsetail-based) for mildew and powdery mildew

Compo Maximum Effect Insecticide

This ready-to-use insecticide is ideal for eliminating insects, larvae, and eggs of aphids, spider mites, whiteflies, and scale insects in cannabis crops grown in pots, indoors or outdoors. Works via contact and ingestion. Spray the entire plant thoroughly in the evening, avoiding wind or ventilation.

Biological control of thrips

Using biological control to eliminate thrips is an effective and eco-friendly method. It involves introducing natural predators such as predatory mites that feed on thrips larvae and adults, reducing populations without chemicals.

Swirskimite Beneficial Mites

Swirskimite provides natural pest control using predatory mites that feed on thrips, whitefly larvae, and spider mites. Packaged in ready-to-hang sachets, they leave no residues and disappear when their prey is gone—an ideal chemical-free alternative.

Entomite-M 10000 (Hypoaspis Miles)

Entomite-M is a sustainable solution for soil pests, fungus gnats, and thrips. It uses Hypoaspis