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 ...

If you have the time and don’t have a huge apple orchard, there is another organic way to grow apples. This method was developed in western Minnesota. After thinning the fruit in early to mid-June, ...

Q: I read your column in our local newspaper every week and find it to be very helpful. We had a bad problem with apple maggots in two of our apple trees the last two years. Last spring, we sprayed ...

Before you go picking apples this time of year, take a closer look at the fruit. Gardeners often use fake apples, coated with a sticky goo, to fool apple maggots.These insects cause the fruit to ...

On the morning of Aug 10, I inspected the various apple maggot sticky traps deployed in my dozen apple trees. Most are made of real (no pun intended) Red Delicious apples skewered on coat-hanger wire ...

Last month I described the apple maggot, an insect that is causing big problems for Western Washington fruit growers. It gets into apples and tunnels around in the flesh, spoiling the fruit. This year ...

The adult form of the apple maggot is a small fly with black bands on its wings. Washington apple growers and packers may pay more beginning in August to protect their industry from apple maggots. The ...

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 ...

Q: I've had an apple tree for several years, but this year was the first year it had about a dozen apples on it. In late August, I noticed that all the apples where gone except two. I thought the ...

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.

Every July, the potential demise of the Skagit Valley’s apple industry emerges in the form of a small black fruit fly. Though it’s barely larger than a pencil tip, the fly and the fruit-eating maggots ...

SPOKANE, Wash — Washington Governor Jay Inslee accidentally violated an apple maggot quarantine last week when he brought Honeycrisp apples from Olympia to the towns of Bridgeport and Malden, as well ...