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A new seed treatment that helps wheat growers kill wireworms was recently approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, and a Washington expert calls it a “game-changer.” Teraxxa, from BASF, uses ...

A Houdini of pests, the meager wireworm can be an unwanted guest for multiple crop seasons. Often called a secondary pest, this worm-then-beetle can stop crops in their tracks by snacking on seeds and ...

Some of the most damaging soybean pests are the ones we never actually see. While we often scout for leaf-damaging insect pests, it’s the underground ones that can hinder the establishment of a ...

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.

Wireworms are no longer as big a problem for farmers as they have been over the last decade and a half, a longtime Washington State University researcher says. “They can still rear their ugly heads, ...

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.