wireworm

A noun referring to the wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles, which feeds on the roots of many crop plants and is often considered a pest.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant la larve vermiforme de divers coléoptères taupins, qui se nourrit des racines de nombreuses plantes cultivées et est souvent considérée comme un ravageur.

1. Insect larva C1 formal scientific

   The slender, hard-bodied, wormlike larva of various click beetles (family Elateridae), which feeds on the roots of many crop plants and is often a pest in agriculture.

   • Wireworms can cause significant damage to potato and corn crops.
   • Farmers use crop rotation to reduce wireworm populations in the soil.
   • The gardener found wireworms feeding on the roots of the young seedlings.
   • Wireworms are most active in cool, moist soil conditions.

   🇫🇷Larve de taupin

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