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Q: My apples are pretty much a lost cause this year after super cold, super windy and now super hot weather. I expected a small crop (from the apples) but not this blight. It starts with a “poke” in ...

A: Codling moths are the bane of many a home orchardist in Bay Area yards with warm summers. They infest apples, pears, quince, walnuts and sometimes plums or other stone fruit. What a mess they make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...