Crossword-Solution: WIREWORM
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| Wireworm | n. | One of the larvae 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. |
| Wireworm | n. | A galleyworm. |
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Sentences with WIREWORM (5)
Allotment holders throughout the country hope the order will be read out to any wireworm or potato-moth that attempts to land at our ports.
There is in this case a risk of wireworm and black bot; but if the turf is provided in good time and is laid up in the yard ready for use, it will be searched by the small birds and pretty well cleansed of the insect larvas that may have lurked in it when first removed.
Small Potatoes, roughly hollowed out, or pieces of Carrot, may be used as traps for wireworm and other vermin.
For practical purposes the Wireworm may be regarded as inhabiting every kind of soil and consuming every kind of crop.
Among the Diptera, the 'leather-jacket' grub of the crane-fly, feeding like the wireworm on roots, has a larval life extending through the greater part of a year, while the maggot of the bluebottle, feeding on a rich meat diet, becomes mature in a few days.