| Author | Kirk, W.D.J. |
| Year | 1996 |
| Title | Thrips |
| ISBN | 0 85546 307 4 |
| Series | Naturalists' Handbooks |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | The keys covers the common species, with rarer ones only keyed to genus or family. |
| Source | Naturalists' Handbooks, 25, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
| Illustrations | Copious line drawings beside the text, and two colour plates of paintings plus two of line drawings are bound in the centre |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Introductory chapters cover the main habitats: fungi, leaves, galls and flowers. The identication section comprises 25 pages of dichotomous keys illustrated with line drawings. These assume you have a cleared and mounted microscope slide of the specimen (well you weren’t going to try to pin it were you?) |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Cleared and mounted on microscope slides. |
| Identification difficulty | Medium |
