Crossword clues for wireworm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wireworm \Wire"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the larv[ae] of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
A galleyworm.
Wiktionary
n. The larva of the click beetle.
WordNet
n. wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
Usage examples of "wireworm".
In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.
Spray on plants to kill or repel cutworms, Wireworms, other caterpillars, slugs and Whiteflies.
Mexican marigolds are planted by many gardeners to eliminate Wireworms.
But it had taken no account of the black fly, the wireworm, the turnip-beetle, the leather-jacket, the green-fly and the black, the cabbage white.
Without a substance produced by wireworms, that savannah grass out there would die&hellip.
Without a substance produced by wireworms, that savannah grass out there would die .