noun
- the larvae of click beetles that live in soil and damage plant roots and seeds
Usage: agricultural pest; plural form
Examples
- Farmers often struggle with wireworms destroying their potato crops.
- The wireworms had eaten through most of the corn seedlings.
- Crop rotation can help reduce wireworm populations in the soil.
- These wireworms can remain in the larval stage for several years.
- The gardener found wireworms while digging in the vegetable patch.
- Wireworms are particularly problematic in newly converted grassland.