Excerpt from Wireworms Attacking Cereal and Forage CropsThe false wireworms (fig. 1, a) will also answer to the above description, but can easily be distinguished by their ability to move very rapidly and by the clavate last joint of the antennae, the true wireworms, though able to move rapidly in the soil, are not very agile when placed on the surface of the ground, and their antennae never have clavate terminal joints. The term wireworm is also, though erroneously, applied to these false wireworms, which are, however, the larvae of another group of beetles, the darkling beetles (tenebrionidae). These beetles can not snap the forepart of the body. One species of darkling beetle (tenebrio molitor L., fig. Is common throughout the United States, and its larva, the meal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.