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  1. Tiny insect with feathery wings, of the order
  2. Thysanoptera. Many of the 3,000 species live
  3. in flowers and suck their juices, causing
  4. damage and spreading disease. Others eat
  5. fungi, decaying matter, or smaller insects.
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