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stalk. All the grains are attacked by wireworms, but 

 wheat and corn suffer most, as well as potatoes, turnips, 

 and many garden crops. 



Description. — Wireworms, which are the young of a 

 number of beetles, which, from their habit of snapping 



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Fig. 25. 

 The Corn Wireworm {Melanotiis The AVireworm of Drnsterius ele- 

 crihulosus), enlarged 4| diam- guns, enlarged seven diam- 



eters. (After Forbes.) eters. (After Forbes.) 



their bodies up in the air, are known as ''click-beetles,'' 

 are all more or less like Fig. 25 in general appearance. 

 Although the common wireworms are usually suj^jjosed to 

 be of but one kind, upon examination several species will 



