pecan orchards

Every pecan orchard has a back door: the trunk. Pecan weevil adults (Curculio caryae) crawl up from the soil in late summer, pecan nut casebearer larvae (Acrobasis nuxvorella) climb from overwintering sites each spring and ants ferry aphids and scale into the canopy. Tree banding tape closes that route with a non-insecticidal physical barrier. For…