Thrip in a bud?!

When controlling thrips, you can prune and get rid of any injured areas on the plant. Regular pruning helps get rid of thrips. Thrips on flowers can be eliminated as soon as you see signs of damage by using a mild insecticide like insecticidal soap or neem oil, or by pruning the flowers. Hopefully, I answered your question and remember " Happy Growing and Free your mind one puff at a time ".

Insects are always a trick. Before bud, and for gardening in general, I like diatomaceous earth(its cuts up and dehydrates most insects, but is safe otherwise, but might not be good to use on bud as you wouldn't want it in your lungs). A good repellent is onion, garlic, and rosemary blended with water and strained and sprayed on the plants. I haven't tried it on budding flower, but doing that same concoction and adding in nettle, it can act as a organic insecticide, but I am not sure about the impact in might have on smoking the bud and the lungs, so thats something I would research more and take care with.