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 ...

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.

That dreaded insect, the apple maggot, has ruined many a crop from the backyard apple tree. The damage is made by worms that hatch from the eggs deposited on apples by flies. After feeding, the worms ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Yakima County's Horticulture and Pest Board is warning growers about apple maggots, a kind of larval fruit fly infesting trees and apples with their eggs. Each fly can lay 300 to 500 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An apple with an apple maggot fly is seen in Edmonton in this file photo. (Credit: Shaughn Butts) Q: My dad has directed me your ...

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 ...