A Houdini of pests, the meager wireworm can be an unwanted guest for multiple crop seasons. Often called a secondary pest, this worm-then-beetle can stop crops in their tracks by snacking on seeds and ...

Spring sunlight sparks excitement above ground, but the real action begins under the soil. While gardeners celebrate the return of green shoots and fresh planting plans, an entire underground world ...

Wireworms are no longer as big a problem for farmers as they have been over the last decade and a half, a longtime Washington State University researcher says. “They can still rear their ugly heads, ...

There are three common underground insect pests often encountered while preparing garden soil or planting a garden. They are grubs, wireworms and cutworms. Grubs are the larval stage of an assortment ...

Some of the most damaging soybean pests are the ones we never actually see. While we often scout for leaf-damaging insect pests, it’s the underground ones that can hinder the establishment of a ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

BURLEY |If you see patches of green in an otherwise mature grain field, you most likely have wireworm damage. Wireworms feed on the roots of growing plants, delaying maturity in the affected plants.