The story
From banded + hickory + borer. "Banded" is from a partial calque of translingual Knulliana cincta (“banded Knulliana”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
banded hickory borer
Today it means: A species of brown longhorn beetle (Knulliana cincta) with orange patterns, found in the southern United States, certain northern areas of Mexico, and the Bahamas. Full definition →