Washington State University Adams County Extension director Aaron Esser calls BASF’s new product a “game-changer” for fighting wireworms. A new seed treatment that helps wheat growers kill wireworms ...

Changes in management have reduced wireworm problems in cereal grains, Washington State University Extension regional educator Aaron Esser says. (Courtesy Aaron Esser/Washington State University ...

BURLEY |If you see patches of green in an otherwise mature grain field, you most likely have wireworm damage. Wireworms feed on the roots of growing plants, delaying maturity in the affected plants.

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 ...

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 ...

IF further work establishes the effectiveness of 'Gammexane', against wireworms 1, the problem in future will be to decide which fields are to be treated with this substance. Unless it is to be ...

No chemical means of wireworm control have so far been effective and the farmer's only means of combating the ravages of this pest have been cultural.

In this week’s Boots In The Field podcast, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie addresses agronomic problems -- insects, diseases and rodents -- he’s anticipating now and how you stop them in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The southern potato wireworm (Conoderus falli Lane), a destructive pest of vegetable crops in southeastern U. S., has been present in southern ...

Potato farmers worldwide are facing a threat that's literally eating into their profits, reported Potato News Today. Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, are tunneling through potato tubers at an ...