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How to use wireworm in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wireworm? Here are some examples.

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Check the bait stations for wireworm larvae a few days before planting to determine if control measures will be needed.
If necessary, applications of appropriate insecticides may help control wireworm populations.
The freshly broken pasture did not produce great potatoes, because of disease and wireworm damage.
The next year, potato growers used a different insecticide, fonofos, to control wireworm.
Insecticide against ground insects such as termites, grasshoppers and insect larvae such as the wireworm.
The study does not address the most important pest in the EEA, the wireworm.
Note:  In regions where seed corn maggot and wireworm are common, these may be controlled by treatment of seed with a registered product.
If the early stand loss is a result of seedcorn maggot, wireworm, grubs, or early cutworm infestation, timely response with rescue treatments may not be feasible.
Seedcorn maggot and wireworm can sometimes be a pest problem of edible beans.
At the Agassiz site of AAFC's Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Dr. Bob Vernon gave me an extensive overview of his current work to protect potato and wheat crops from wireworm.
The wireworm problem on potatoes continues to be extensive, especially where potatoes are planted in fields that were previously planted with grass or grain crops.
Global warming is going to bring new plant diseases and new insects into Europe: certain harmful species like the wireworm have already migrated from the South toward northern Europe.
Since the only chemical control for wireworm is an in-furrow treatment of Counter at planting, fields at risk must be scouted pre-plant to determine if control is needed.
Significant differences in total wireworm mortality and mycosed wireworms in the field occurred at any time ranging from 15 to 82 d following treatment.
Thick cakes of mud Like parathas clung to our boots, and we killed each wireworm singly, If the clodhopping robin didn't pick it off first.
Wireworm feeding may reduce seed germination or produce weak seedlings.
Examples from Classical Literature
The insects in the larval or wireworm stage attack the roots of plants, eating them away below the ground.
Kainit is said to keep off wireworm, and is recommended in the United States as a preventive against this pest.
One day I encountered a sand-wasp which had just stung a wireworm and was dragging it over the ground.
It is also believed to be a preventive of wireworm, and so is often employed for potatoes and root-crops.
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.
The wireworm and slugs are both very fond of Pinks and Carnations.
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