wireworm

The yellowish hard-bodied larva of various click beetles that feeds on the roots and seedlings of many crop plants.

Any of various millipedes.

The slender hard-bodied larva of any one of the click-beetles or snapping-beetles of the family Elateridæ.

A myriapod of the genus Julus or of an allied genus; a galley-worm.

A parasitic worm of sheep, Strongylus contortulus.

One of the larvæ of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; — so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.

A galleyworm.

The larva of the click beetle.

wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants