Topic: Is this wireworm?

[jamie]

Sorry, first ever post and it's a question. Is the picture below wireworm? (it's on a parsnip) I've checked on Google Images and this picture doesn't look anything like wireworm. Books and other info state that wireworm has 3 pairs of legs. If you look closely this pest has hundreds of pairs of legs.

If disturbed it curls up into a catherine wheel type shape.

They were first spotted around my asparagus in spring and I had success seducing the little blighters with pushed in split brussel sprout stems. I understand split carrots/potatoes will also work. I want to try corn/wheat sown close by to attract them away from the crops (as the books suggest if it is wireworm).

Jamie

[Hugh_Jones]

The picture hasn`t registered Jamie, have another try.

[Roy Bham UK]

I’ve just Googled it and come up with Millipede (Blaniulus guttulatus) damages crops by all accounts :o see link below.

Roy  ;)

http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th11b(3).htm

[Wicker]

This is a piccie of wireworm I believe:


Can't mistake them once you find one!!

[jamie]

Thanks for the replies, certainly with the number of legs it is probably a millepede. Some of you have managed to see the picture in my post, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong although the process to get it onto the internet in order to reference it to this post was some what challenging (and I'm in the computer industry!). Sometimes I can't see images (there is a cross in one of the corners). The image is also at "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/92/2066/400/11.jpg". I don't mined E-mailing the image either if anybody wants it. Can't see why I can't just attach a JPEG image? My recently purchased digital camera is coming up trumps with capturing bugs, weeds, allotment photos.

Jamie

[Hugh_Jones]

Pay your sub and you too can attach pics directly to your postings Jamie

[jamie]

Hugh

Can you give me any guidance on this.

Ta

Jamie

[Wicker]

Jamie pic now visible!

[Roy Bham UK]

Jamie the easiest way I have found to place images directly to a post on this site is by using Image Shack (see link below) it's free and easy to use although I'm told the images are wiped after 12 months but they will be old hat by then anyway ::).

Oh! and welcome aboard BTW I see you live in one of the warmer parts of the UK ;)

Roy ;D
http://www.imageshack.us/

[jamie]

Wow, I'm learning by the second, thanks for the info Roy, Image Shack looks easy to use. I'm also looking into designing a website. I've got other photos to share which may have to be password protected (sons rugby), although better than writing 11 CD's.

Portsmouth certainly is warm for a fair skinned Northerner who's drifted and settled South. However the weather at the start of the Global Challenge two weeks ago was awful, still they've probably got worse to come.

Jamie