Tag: wireworm
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Question of the Week – Wireworm Damage
This week, the question was: What’s wrong with this sweetpotato that was found in a grocery store? While picking out the ingredients for my Thanksgiving sweetpotato cassarole, I found this sweetpotato full of holes. The holes are tell-tale signs of wireworm feeding. Wireworms are the soil-dwelling larvae of click beetles (Family: Elateridae). There are at…
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