Pasture wireworm
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Conoderus exsul (Sharp)
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Size range
- 18 mm long
Distribution
- From Australia, widespread in New Zealand
Life History
- Found in soil
- Eats plant roots and grubs in the soil. Infests potato tubers
- Larva of the common click beetle