Bulletin No.

633

Document Type

Bulletin

Department

Department of Plant Science

Description

False wireworms were important pests of wheat during the early part of this century, and the cropping practices of that time were synchronized with the life cycle of several species. However, a wide-spread change in cropping practices occurred during the 1920s and 1930s. Farmers began to alternate wheat with other crops, and they began a practice called summer fallowing.
These practices were detrimental to false wireworms because they broke the crop continuity necessary for the completion of the life cycles. The economic importance of false wireworms seemed to decline quite sharply, and the mention of economic infestations no longer appeared in the scientific literature.
The recent occurrence of several scattered infestations prompted another look at this group of insects to determine the cause of these outbreaks and to ascertain what potential exists for another major problem to arise.

Keywords

false wireworms, eleodes, embaphion

Pages

38

Publication Date

9-1975

Type

text

Format

application/pdf

Language

en

Publisher

South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University

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