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wireworm

NOUN
  1. wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

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  • The nutty roots are often eaten by earth vermin, especially wireworm. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
  • There is in this case a risk of wireworm and black bot; but if the turf is provided in good time and is laid up in the yard ready for use, it will be searched by the small birds and pretty well cleansed of the insect larvas that may have lurked in it when first removed. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • It appears that these seed applied insecticides and liquid insecticides will be effective in protecting seeds from seed feeding insects such as wireworms and seedcorn maggots.
  • Most Southeastern potato farmers, both sweet and Irish, contend a wireworm is a wireworm and the only good one is a dead one. Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed
  • Allotment holders throughout the country hope the order will be read out to any wireworm or potato-moth that attempts to land at our ports. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917
  • It acts as a biofumigant and drives away wireworms. The Sun
  • Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
  • Later in the season, wireworms will feed on plant roots and may damage developing potato tubers.
  • Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
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