Few things are as disheartening as when pests enjoy the fruit you've grown. This easy trick helps keep fruit safe until you're ready to harvest it.

If you have fruit trees, now’s the time to be on the lookout for codling moths. This is the time of year — mid-March to early April — when the adult codling moth, a little grayish-brown lepidopteran, ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -Mesa County is highlighting a pest that could turn your apple pie sour. The Upper Grand Valley Pest Control District, CSU Tri-River Extension Office and Mesa County are ...

Researchers from Michigan State University's Department of Entomology found that automated camera traps often detected codling moth activity in orchards several days earlier than standard monitoring ...

César Reyes Corral, graduate research assistant based at Wenatchee, Washington, holds petri dishes used to grow and study pathogens of tree fruit pests, including fungi that may be able to defend ...

Now is the season to start control of codling moths. If you have apple, pear or even peach trees, in whose fruit you’ve found pinkish-white “worms” with dark heads, those are offspring of codling ...

Codling moth (Cydia pomonella) remains one of the most persistent and destructive pests of homegrown apples and pears. Understanding how to identify it, how it develops through the season, and how to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Growing your own fruit should be a relaxing, rewarding enterprise, but too often it can feel like a perpetual war against hungry interlopers ...