Potato Pest

Finding these critters in nearly every seed potato I scrat out to have a look at , usually 3 or 4 per potato burrowing in. Anyone know what they are and should I be worried ? I mean more worried than any potato growers constantly Is.
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Not recently out of grass as far as I know, atleast not been grass for 4 years minimum, has been heavily mucked twice though , could that be related.
Didn't use nemathorin
That it for the crop then ?
 
Wireworm in large quantities will make your crop virtually unmarketable. Real pain to grade out of the crop, slugs are bad enough! What population have you got?
 

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