Author: B. J. Landis

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Published: 1977

Total Pages: 16

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Growers of commercial vegetable and field crops on irrigated lands in the west save millions of dollars annually by chemical and cultural control of wireworms. Wireworms are the young (larvae) of click beetles. They live in soil and feed on underground parts of plants. They are recognized by their shiny, wirelike, yellow-orange bodies. There are many kinds of wireworms in the West; five that cause most damage on irrigated lands are the Pacific Coast wireworm, the westen field wireworm, the Columbia basin wireworm.