There are plenty of ways to help your apple trees thrive, such as pruning and choosing the right fertilizer. But what if your apples are turning brown and mushy before they're even ripe? Codling moths ...

Several years ago, my husband and I started growing our tree fruits organically because we wanted to avoid using chemicals. Bill and I grow plum, cherry, apple and pear trees. Plums are a gardener’s ...

Q: I have had wormy apples in my Honeycrisp apple tree. Last year, I had the same problem. I was told to spray a fungicide. I also sprayed neem oil. I waited until the apples started to form. I still ...

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” ...

SEVERAL recent papers have compared the effectiveness of bait and light traps as means of estimating changes in adult codling moth populations and of timing the application of sprays 1–3. The ...

HAMILTON – Using weather data collected at the Western Agriculture Research Center and codling moth captures around the valley, local agronomists have bumped up the date to spray against codling moths ...