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Click beetle larvae, called wireworms, are usually saprophagous, living on dead organisms, but some species are serious agricultural pests, and others are active predators of other insect larvae. Some elaterid species are bioluminescent in both larval and adult form, such as those of the genus Pyrophorus .
Agriotes sputator [1] is a species of click beetle, commonly known as the common click beetle. [2] The adult beetle is brown and inconspicuous, and the larvae live in the soil and are known as wireworms. They are agricultural pests that devour the roots and underground parts of many crops and other plants.
Limonius infuscatus, the Western field wireworm, is a nocturnal species of click beetle in the family Elateridae and native to the northwestern United States. [1] [2] [3]
This is referred to as tillage and is one of the oldest methods of weed control as well as being useful for pest control; wireworms, the larvae of the common click beetle, are very destructive pests of newly ploughed grassland, and repeated cultivation exposes them to the birds and other predators that feed on them. [15]
Agriotes mancus, the wheat wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. It is found in North America. [1] [2] [3] References
Limonius californicus, the sugarbeet wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. [1] [2] [3] References ... Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Monocrepidius falli, the southern potato wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. References This page was last edited on 12 ...
Elaterini is a tribe of click beetles in the family Elateridae. There are about 7 genera and 17 described species in Elaterini. ... 1875 g b (brown wireworms ...