Predators such as insects capture their prey with their front legs and cut them with their jaws before eating them. Mites are one predator of thrips, capturing the thrips and sucking out their internal fluids, leaving only the empty skin. Predators include praying mantises, butterfly larvae, dragonflies, lacewings and their larvae, wasps, ladybugs, and mites.

1. Predators
Insects capture their preys with its front legs and
then with their jaws they cut them.
• They also capture and cut the prey with their
jaws and later they eat it.
• The thrips have many enemies one of them is
the mite, this insect captures the thrip and then
sucks its “hemolinfa” leaving just the skin.
Thrips Mite

2. Lifecycle of predator

3. Predators
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Praying Mantis Butterfly larve Dragonfly
Raptors legs

4. • chrysopa
Wasp Ladybug
Adult of Chrysopa
Thumbtack
Larva of Chrysopa