Potato, Wireworm and False Wireworm Control, Echo, Oregon, 1977 [PDF]
Insecticide and Acaricide Tests, 1979 Abstract The test was conducted in a grower’s center-pivot, sprinkler-irrigated field. The soil type was Ritzville (Calciorthidie Haploxerolls) silt loam; it contained less than 0.5% organic matter. Soil samples (150) taken in a similar adjacent field with a 51/2-in. diam posthole digger to a depth of at least 18 in.
H. H. Toba, J. E. Turner
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Effectiveness of Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) in Reducing Wireworm Damage in Potatoes [PDF]
InsectsWireworms are a major threat to potatoes. Agronomic prevention is always the first IPM strategy to be implemented. This work assesses whether a bioactive cover crop, sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), a tropical leguminous plant, reduces wireworm damage ...
Lorenzo Furlan +8 more
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Insecticide and Acaricide Tests, 1989 Abstract Three plots were established in fields that required replanting because of wireworm damage. The seedbed was prepared by field cultivating out the reduced stand in the severely damaged area of the fields. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with 4 replicates.
J. D. Oleson +3 more
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Field Evaluation of Selected Plant Volatiles and Conspecific Pheromones as Attractants for Agriotes obscurus and A. lineatus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Sex pheromones are commonly used in traps to monitor populations and movements of male click beetles, but to date few attractants have been identified for females.
Wim van Herk +4 more
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Cyantraniliprole seed treatment effectively controls wireworms (Pleonomus canaliculatus Faldermann) and white grubs (Anomala corpulenta Motschulsky) in maize fields. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Qiao Z +6 more
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Integrated Pest Management of Wireworms in Potatoes: Use of Tolerant Varieties to Implement Damage Prevention [PDF]
InsectsWireworms (Agriotes spp., Coleoptera, Elateridae) are a major threat to potatoes, as are the current commercial standards for assessing potato damage.
Furlan Lorenzo +5 more
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Identification of Agriotes wireworms – Are they always what they appear to be?
Journal für Kulturpflanzen, 2015 Wireworms are internationally recognized as economically important pests with the most damaging wireworms in middle European arable land belonging to the genus Agriotes. From the five species of greater importance in Germany, three (A.
Jörn Lehmhus, Frank Niepold
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Wireworm Control using Fodder Rape and Mustard – evaluating the use of brassica green manures for the control of wireworm (Agriotes spp.) in organic crops [PDF]
, 2002 In a field experiment at ADAS Pwllpeiran in 2001, brassica green manures were grown for 6 weeks and dug in before planting King Edward potatoes, to see if they suppressed wireworm in the crop.
Clarke, A, Frost, D, McLean, B M L
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Wireworm species associated with corn and soybean agroecosystems in Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
Environ EntomolSmith JL +7 more
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Managing Wireworms in Florida Sweet Potatoes
EDIS, 2021 This publication describes current methods for managing wireworms in sweet potato. Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, are the most damaging insect pests of those that infest the foliage and roots.
Robert Hochmuth +5 more
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