What's the difference between fireworm and wireworm?

Fireworm


Definition:

  • (n.) The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Amphinomid polychaetes (fireworms) have been responsible for 'bristleworm stingings' and their large setae are reputed to be filled with toxin.

Wireworm


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the larvae 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.
  • (n.) A galleyworm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the laboratory, male wireworm beetles are repelled by the pure attractant but are drawn with intense sexual excitement to its dilute solutions; in the field, male beetles are lured from a distance of 12 meters.
  • (2) Studies were carried out to investigate possible contamination of pheasants with residues of lindane used as seed dressings for the control of wireworms in cereal crops.
  • (3) Kepone is a persistent chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide which is no longer manufactured in the U.S.A., its uses having been cancelled on April 11, 1977; previous food uses included control of the banana root borer, and non-food uses included control of tobacco wireworm, ants, and cockroaches.

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