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Pests - Wireworm
Wireworms are the yellow to yellowish brown slender hard-bodied larvae of the Click Beetle. Wireworms cause damage to the potato by making deep holes into the flesh of the potato. They leave very small holes on the skins surface making it very difficult to remove the affected tubers at grading. The main damage takes place in the spring of the larvae's 2nd Year. In the autumn the wire worms burrow deep into the soil, emerging again in the spring and it is then and early summer that they cause the most damage to the potato crop. The Click Beetles show a preference for grassland in laying their eggs and so the resulting larvae / Wireworms cause most damage to a potato crop when it is grown after grassland.
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