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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.
Binomial name; Monocrepidius vespertinus ... Monocrepidius vespertinus, the tobacco wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. [1] [2] References
Binomial name; Monocrepidius exsul ... Monocrepidius exsul, known generally as the pasture wireworm or sugarcane wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family ...
Pest control measures may be performed as part of an integrated pest management strategy. In agriculture, pests are kept at bay by mechanical, cultural, chemical and biological means. [2] Ploughing and cultivation of the soil before sowing mitigate the pest burden, and crop rotation helps to reduce the build-up of a certain pest species.
Monocrepidius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. The genus has often been cited as Conoderus, but of the two names for this genus published simultaneously in 1829, the one selected by the First Reviser under the ICZN was Monocrepidius, rendering Conoderus the junior synonym. [2] Monocrepidius vespertinus
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 ] References
Binomial name; Limonius californicus (Mannerheim) Limonius californicus, the sugarbeet wireworm, is a species of click beetle in the family Elateridae. [1] [2] [3 ...