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. 2014 Apr 8;87(4):609–617. doi: 10.1007/s10340-014-0583-5

Table 4.

Wireworm species identified as damaging maize seeds and plants in fields monitored with bait traps expressed as a percentage of the total number of larvae collected from damaged plants

Fields (no.) Species in bait traps Agriotes ustulatus Agriotes brevis Agriotes sordidus Others Total number of larvae
30 Agriotes ustulatus 99.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 1,015
31 Agriotes brevis 0.1 99.6 0.2 0.1 754
88 Agriotes sordidus 0.1 0.2 99.7 0.0 622

This table considers only fields where bait traps caught larvae belonging to one species