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= = -- The Carrot maggot and the wire-worm are destructive enemies of this crop.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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The slug, the snail, the wire-worm, the impudent sparrow, and the most impudent and insolent chaffinch, who all seem to have an idea that the seed is put into the ground entirely for their benefit.
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To be sure, he did not despise a grub -- if he happened to meet one -- nor a cutworm nor a wire-worm.
oroboros commented on the word wire-worm
The classic electronic glitch, especially one that periodically fixes itself, i.e., is intermittent and unendingly exasperating.
December 30, 2006