Definition of wireworm
:any of the slender hard-coated larvae of various click beetles that include some destructive especially to plant roots
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Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leafhoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and others, are now able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays.
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1771
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