It sounds like science fiction, but it’s science fact. Wireworms have been infiltrating fields for decades, causing unwanted damage in growers’ crops. It’s a tough pest to manage, as they eat almost ...

Wireworms may not be one of the leading corn pests, but where they are present, they can cause significant stand losses. Wireworms are the larvae of click beetles and live in soils across North ...

The click beetles have a catchy name and in the adult stage they represent no threat to cereal crops. Unfortunately this beetle’s larval stage—wireworms—can crimp a wheat producer’s profits if he has ...

Purdue Extension entomologists encourage corn farmers to be on the lookout for wireworms prior to planting. The click beetle larvae feed on corn seed germ and can prevent plants from sprouting.

As wireworms spread across P.E.I., costing potato growers millions of dollars by damaging crops, farmers are turning to a new rotation crop for the fight. Wireworms, the larval form of the click ...

THE apparent efficiency with which wireworms (Agriotes obscurus, lineatus and sputator), when in an active feeding phase, find crop plants on which to feed is very striking. It is displayed even ...

WIREWORMS are undoubtedly the most notorious of all insects of agricultural importance, probably because their depredations are more extensive at times of agricultural expansion and prosperity. The ...