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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

P.E.I. potato growers now have a new pesticide to use to help fight a costly pest called wireworm. In October 2020, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency approved the registration of broflanilide, the ...

A research scientist on P.E.I. is studying the behaviour of the wireworm in the hopes of helping stop what an Island potato farmer calls "one tough pest." In her latest research, Christine Noronha is ...

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 ...

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 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.

Thomas and Jameson 1 state that as a result of the application of ‘Gammexane’ in field trials reductions in wireworm populations of up to 65 per cent have been obtained. Numerous similar trials were ...