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mummy nut en · NOUN

Etymology

mummy + nut

Meanings

1. A nut left over in a tree after harvesting.
   • In 1990/1991, 27 percent of the nuts were infested with one or more NOW larvae or pupae. Infested nuts had an average of 1.19 +/− 2.99 larvae or pupae per mummy nut. 1993, The Nut Grower, volume 13, page 18:
   • Current control practices involve mechcanical destruction of the overwintering mummy nut host and one or two summer sprays directed at the larval stage. 1978, Abstracts of Submitted Papers - Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America: Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America. Pacific Branch, page 6:
   • Mummy nut removal by shaking or hand-poling prior to bloom has become a common practice by growers in California, where the navel orangeworm is the most significant insect pest. 2017, Frank G. Zalom, Evan Núñez, Roger A. Baldwin, “16: Almond Pests”, in Rafel Socias i Company and Thomas Gradziel, editors, Almonds: Botany, Production and Uses, CABI, →ISBN, page 378:

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