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Practical Control of Wireworm with 'Gammexane' [PDF]

Nature, 1946
IN Nature of June 8, Messrs. Golightly and Hogg refer to our statement in an earlier issue that wireworm populations had been reduced by as much as 65 per cent following the application of ‘Gammexane’. In view of a misconception that has evidently arisen, we would state that this 65 per cent measured the difference between the populations of treated ...
F. J. D. THOMAS, H. R. JAMESON
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Field Evaluation of Selected Plant Volatiles and Conspecific Pheromones as Attractants for Agriotes obscurus and A. lineatus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

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, Bob Vernon, Gabrielle Bourassa-Tait, Miklós Tóth, Ervin Kovacs   +4 more
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2-Pentylfuran: an aggregation attractant for wireworms [PDF]

, 2023
peer reviewedWireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) are generalist insect pests that aggregate and feed on the roots of various crops, including maize. It remains unclear how they find and choose host plants.
Turlings, Ted C. J., Martin, Clément, Clément Martin, Ted C. J. Turlings, François Verheggen, Diana la Forgia, la Forgia, Diana, Verheggen, François   +7 more
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Abundance of non-target pests in transgenic Bt-maize: A farm scale study

European Journal of Entomology, 2005
The impact of transgenic Bt-maize, expressing the Cry1Ab protein, on aphids, leafhoppers, cutworms and wireworms was evaluated at the farm scale by comparing their abundance on Bt-plots and those sown with the isogenic variety over three consecutive ...
Xavier PONS, Belén LUMBIERRES, Carmen LÓPEZ, Ramon ALBAJES   +3 more
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A faunistic study of the family Elateridae in Bačka, Serbia [PDF]

Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2017
A faunistic study of the family Elateridae was carried out in Bačka, the north-western district of Vojvodina Province in Serbia, focusing on their preferred habitats and soil types.
Toscano Bruno, Štrbac Pero, Popović Zorica, Kostić Miroslav, Kostić Igor, Konjević Aleksandra, Krnjajić Slobodan   +6 more
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Valorization of agricultural byproducts – The use of mustard seed meal for pest control

Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment
Mustard seed (Brassica juncea) meals from biodiesel production can be utilized as a feedstock for sourcing pesticidal compounds that can control ubiquitous soil pests such as wireworms.
John Randall, Atoosa Nikoukar, Arash Rashed, Inna Popova   +3 more
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Control of wireworms with organophosphorus and carbamate insecticides

, 1971
Carbaryl, chlorfenvinphos, diazinon, disulfoton, parathion, phorate, fenitrothion, thionazin and trichlorphon were tested for their effectiveness in killing wireworms by broadcast treatments.
Thompson, A. R., Edwards, C. A.
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Wireworms and their Control [PDF]

, 1949
Wireworms (Elateridae) may be recognized because of their resemblance to a short piece of shiny copper or bronze wire. In color, most wireworms vary from light yellow to a light; or even dark brown.
Severin, H. C.
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The Economic Wireworms of the Pacific Northwest

KEYWORDS: Wireworms, Click ...
Esser, Aaron D., Milosavljevic, Ivan, Crowder, David W., Pike, Keith S.   +3 more
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Organophosphorous and carbamate insecticides as soil treatments for the control of wireworms

, 1964
SUMMARY Laboratory methods are described for testing soil insecticides against wireworms, and the results obtained with some organophosphorus and carbamate compounds tried as possible alternatives to chlorinated hydrocarbons are reported.
Bardner, R., Griffiths, D. C.
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