INSECTS ATTACKING THE NUTS Olive-green caterpillars up to ½ inch page 10 Pecan Nut Casebearer long feeding in the nuts, or later in the season, in the shucks White caterpillars up to ⅜ inch long page 11 Hickory Shuckworm tunneling in the shucks White legless grubs feeding in the nuts page 12 Pecan Weevil in late summer Green or brown bugs sucking the sap page 12 Stink Bugs and Plant from the nuts Bugs INSECTS ATTACKING THE FOLIAGE Soft-bodied yellow insects producing page 13 Aphids honeydew or small black insects causing yellow blotches on the foliage Tiny green arthropods in webs near the page 13 Mites midrib, leaves appear scorched Caterpillars feeding in gray cases page 14 Pecan Leaf Casebearer about ½ inch long in the spring; small winding blotches produced in the leaves in the summer Olive-green caterpillars tunneling in page 10 Pecan Nut Casebearer the shoots in the early spring Tiny caterpillars in light brown page 15 Pecan Cigar Casebearer cigar-shaped cases about ¼ inch long Galls on the leaves, twigs and nuts page 14 Pecan Phylloxera Leaves eaten in the early spring by a page 14 Sawfly light green caterpillar which leaves the midribs and veins intact Beetles feeding on the foliage at night page 15 May Beetles Caterpillars in large white webs page 15 Fall Webworm encasing entire branches Caterpillars with long soft hairs page 16 Walnut Caterpillar feeding in colonies on the foliage without producing webs Dark gray, active caterpillars up to 3 page 16 Pecan Catocala inches long feeding on the foliage in early spring Masses of frothy white foam enclosing page 16 Pecan Spittlebug tiny, light green insects in the spring Tiny greenish caterpillars feeding in page 16 Pecan Bud Moth the terminals and axils of the buds on young pecan trees INSECTS ATTACKING THE LIMBS, TRUNK AND TWIGS Beetle girdling twigs and limbs in late page 17 Pecan Twig Girdler summer and fall Holes about ⅛ inch in diameter in dying page 17 Red-shouldered limbs Shot-hole Borer White borers with an enlargement behind page 17 Flatheaded Borers the head tunneling underneath the bark of trunk and limbs Limbs encrusted with scales, which page 18 Obscure Scale closely resemble the color of the bark CONTENTS