Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ripe apples hanging from an apple tree tree - Luis Alvarez/Getty Images In the hopes of crunching into homegrown produce or ...

A wide variety of pests can affect apple trees. Those interested can learn about the common ones and ways to control them at Apples All Year Long: Pest Management, on Saturday, July 14, at the Audubon ...

When planting apple trees in your yard, it’s worth thinking beyond soil drainage and light conditions—and even the delicious fruit you’ll eventually get to eat. However, you should also consider what ...

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 ...

Codling moth (Cydia pomonella) remains one of the most persistent and destructive pests of homegrown apples and pears.

The apple harvest is over, but there are still some important pest management practices to follow to ensure healthy trees in the spring. The pests we need to manage are not the little ones we ...

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.

When planting apple trees in your yard, it’s worth thinking beyond soil drainage and light conditions—and even the delicious fruit you’ll eventually get to eat. However, you should also consider what ...

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 ...

This month is a crucial time to set your apple tree up for success ...