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Research needed to better understand wireworms/click beetles

By ANDREA JOHNSON Editor
May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018 Updated May 28, 2018

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Kevin Wanner, Montana State University assistant professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist.

Wireworms are the larval stage of click beetles.

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