Q: My apple tree is healthy, but the past few years the insides of the apple fruits are full of brown streaks that I understand are caused by worms. The apples are very unappetizing. Is there a way to ...
Q: My dad has directed me your way, in regards to obtaining help for our apple trees.
If you grow apples in your back yard, you probably already know about apple maggots, the pests that leave fruit an inedible, mushy brown mess. Apple maggots hang out in the ground through the winter ...
That dreaded insect, the apple maggot, has ruined many a crop from the backyard apple tree. The damage is made by worms that hatch from the eggs deposited on apples by flies. After feeding, the worms ...
YAKIMA, Wash. - Yakima County's Horticulture and Pest Board is warning growers about apple maggots, a kind of larval fruit fly infesting trees and apples with their eggs. Each fly can lay 300 to 500 ...
On a sunny spring afternoon near Selah, a crew hired by Yakima County cut down an apple tree. This wasn’t a case of a tree growing in the right-of-way of a new road or interfering with utility lines.