This work is part of a series of trials conducted to determine and describe for the first time the relationship between early season blueberries and one of their most important pest, flower-thrips.  To describe the damage and to calculate the Economic Injury Level (EIL) for flower thrips, we selected the Florida flower thrips, Frankliniella bispinosa (Morgan), and Rabbiteye blueberry, Vaccinium ashei Reade cv. Climax.  Data were collected in southern Georgia during the 2005 blueberry season. Using no-thrips screen-bags, we protected inflorescences and then when the flowers opened, a known number of F. bispinosa was added into the bag; a week later the flowers were hand pollinated. When the fruits were formed, their number and visible injury were recorded and analyzed at the Small Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory, in Gainesville.  The number of fruits formed and the number of thrips per flower showed a negative linear correlation, where increasing the number of thrips will reduce the number of formed fruits, and their quality.  At the same time, we found significant differences between the fruits formed at different levels of thrips exposure. The results from this trial combined with others conducted during 2004 and 2005 give us the information needed to calculate an EIL for flower-thrips affecting rabbiteye blueberry production.