Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Wireworms can dig deep into the soil to avoid frost and survive cold temperatures, according to research out of Prince Edward Island. Christine Noronha, an entomologist with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Charlottetown, recently studied how deep, and at what times, wireworms were on the move in the soil. There are no […] Read more
Wireworm survival behaviour unearthed
Wireworms travelled deep into the soil for winter, research out of Atlantic Canada found
Cereal crop characteristics seen as another biofumigation prospect
Buckwheat has been shown to suppress wireworm, and might also be a marketable crop
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chemical controls have reached a point where “more of the same” may not work, so the search is on for new or alternative methods. If you want to control wireworms, one of those methods might be buckwheat. It’s an approach discovered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers on Prince Edward Island, where Christine Noronha and […] Read more
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