Pasture wireworm
The pasture wireworm is a long, narrow click beetle, brown or black. Its babies are called wireworms and live in the soil under grass. Like other click beetles, it can flip itself into the air with a click.
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Fun facts
The females are bigger than the males.
Its larva lives in the soil for 8 to 12 months before it turns into a pupa.
A grown-up beetle lives for only about 38 days on average.
In Hawaii and Australia it mostly eats young sugar cane shoots.
Most asked questions about Pasture wireworm
?What does the pasture wireworm eat?
Plants and insects. The larvae eat grass roots, and the adults eat things like seeds and other insects' grubs.
?How big is the pasture wireworm?
Males are 8.5 to 12 millimetres long and females 11 to 13 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Monocrepidius exsul
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Elateridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Elateridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, North America, Europe
- Also known as
- Sugarcane wireworm
Where the facts come from
- Monocrepidius exsul (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Caroline Harding, MAF. CC BY 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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