wireworm

Updated: May 10, 2025

For the several kinds of underground worms that trouble pinks, of which the wireworm is the chief, I have found a liberal use of unslaked lime and bone-dust in the preparation of the soil before planting the best preventive. Other ailments have appeared only occasionally.

Mabel Osgood Wright - The Garden, You, and I

It is too late probably, to undertake spraying the whole field. Wire Worms. Is there any way to destroy or overcome the destructive work of the wireworm, which I find in some spots takes the lion's share of crops, such as beans, potatoes, onions, etc.? We do not know any easy way with wire worms.

Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson - One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered