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wireworm
[ wahyuhr-wurm ]
noun
- any of the slender, hard-bodied larvae of click beetles, many of which live underground and feed on the roots of plants.
- any of various small myriapods.
wireworm
/ ˈwaɪəˌwɜːm /
noun
- the wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles, which feeds on the roots of many crop plants and is a serious agricultural pest
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Small Potatoes, roughly hollowed out, or pieces of Carrot, may be used as traps for wireworm and other vermin.
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For practical purposes the Wireworm may be regarded as inhabiting every kind of soil and consuming every kind of crop.
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The insects in the larval or wireworm stage attack the roots of plants, eating them away below the ground.
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Wireworm is the most persistent and destructive of all the ground vermin.
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The nutty roots are often eaten by earth vermin, especially wireworm.
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