wireworm

English Thesaurus

1. wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	larva,
definition	:	the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	elateridae, family elateridae,
definition	:	click beetles and certain fireflies (noun.animal)