Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone checking on their apple tree - D3sign/Getty Images When it comes to planting fruit-bearing trees around your home, few ...

Two insects tend to be the most prevalent pests in our area’s fruit trees: the codling moth (apples) and the western cherry fruit fly (cherries). Both create “wormy” fruit, and both, once the “worm” ...

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Answer: Finding half a worm. Modern pesticides and strict inspection policies have made finding a codling moth larva, or worm, in an apple from a ...

After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

I hope that readers with fruit trees are in the thick of winter pruning and thinking about that one crucial dormant oil application. For what dormant oil controls on fruit trees, the list is long and ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — A presentation on the use of nematodes to attack codling moths and other tree fruit pests drew audible comments of amazement from growers Dec. 5 at the Washington State Tree Fruit ...

Richard Prokopy, 68, an entomologist who studied insects that destroy apple crops and helped develop a decoy designed to kill apple maggot flies without spraying pesticide, died May 14 of ...

When it comes to planting fruit-bearing trees around your home, few moments are more exciting than your first real harvest. After months -- or even years -- of watering, pruning, and waiting, you ...