The threat of wireworm damage is a growing concern for UK potato producers as a perfect storm of risk factors create optimum conditions for the soil-dwelling pest to thrive. Growers are encouraged to ...

The threat of wireworm damage is a growing concern for UK potato producers as a perfect storm of risk factors create optimum conditions for the soil-dwelling pest to thrive. Growers are encouraged to ...

FROM the beginning of the War a considerable programme of work on the control of wireworm by chemical means was prosecuted by these laboratories. Following the discovery of the insecticidal properties ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The ongoing research on wireworm control in potatoes using RNAi technology performed by postdoc Dr. Jyoti Joshi from Dr. Gefu Wang-Pruski’s lab has drawn the attention of the national potato industry.

As wireworms spread across P.E.I., costing potato growers millions of dollars by damaging crops, farmers are turning to a new rotation crop for the fight. Wireworms, the larval form of the click ...

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Farmers in southern Alberta are gearing up for spring seeding and so are the pests that can hamper crop production. Joe Ripley farms near Spring Coulee, Alta., and one insect in particular has been ...