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Below-ground Insect Pests of Peanuts

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Damage by wireworms<br />

• Damaging stage: larvae feed at<br />

various depths<br />

• Early season damage to peanut >><br />

loss <strong>of</strong> plant stand<br />

• Doesn’t like saturated SM, causes<br />

migration & spread<br />

• Major problem following sod<br />

• Larvae attack pod: make a large<br />

entry hole on a side<br />

• Large larvae feeds with part <strong>of</strong><br />

body outside

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