"Some consider thrips to have piercing-sucking mouthparts, but others describe them as rasping-sucking.[11]"
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ I was using my rasping-sucking mouthparts on metal work, but it turns out those are for wood work and I should be using my filing-sucking mouthparts instead. 😔
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