1. Some elateriform larvae of click beetles are known as wireworms . 2. The wireworm is the larva of a click beetle a brownish, oblong insect. 3. Wireworms are a common problem for sweetpotato growers.4. The larva is a short-legged wireworm . 5. "There are from time to time fields that just exhibit wireworms , " he said. 6. Nannochoristid larvae, however, are elateriform, or shaped like wireworm or click beetle larvae. 7. Story transmitted from The Star-News, Wilmington, N . C . What are wireworms ? 8. Wireworms make the crop unmarketable because they burrow through the skin and into the potato's meat.9. This would give the derivation of " C�il Sor�n ", meaning " recess of the wireworms ". 10. The adult beetle is brown and inconspicuous, and the larvae live in the soil and are known as wireworms .