You can find pecans on pies at Thanksgiving.  But it turns out people aren’t the only ones who love these oblong nuts. Bugs do too—and they don’t even need a pie crust and lots of sugar to make them taste good. Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

Pecan weevils lay eggs. The baby bugs eat the insides of pecans. Then they make circle-shaped holes in the shells. The nuts fall to the ground. The baby bugs—white grubs with no legs and reddish-brown heads—crawl out of the holes and into the ground. That’s nice for baby bugs—and terrible for pecan farmers.

Farmers in New Mexico rely on the pecan crop for money. But this year, instead of good, healthy pecans, they are finding nuts with holes in them. You can guess who the culprits are. Pecan weevils! Pecan weevils don’t belong in New Mexico. To keep the bugs from spreading, farmers are not allowed to sell their pecans to other places. That’s even bigger trouble for them. Oh, nuts!

(AP Photo: A tractor prepares a pecan orchard near Rincon, New Mexico.)