Owners of Okanagan orchards infested with codling moths can expect increased visits this year from representatives of a long-established bug control scheme. The Sterile Insect Release program will ...

All summer you looked forward to your first, fresh-picked apple of the season. Picking a beautiful apple off the tree, the only imperfection is a slight red spot on the skin---somewhat like a ...

For the best effectiveness spray your trees and orchards for codling moths June 10. For the past several weeks orchard growers and backyard apple tree owners have been tracking codling moth catches ...

Chemical pesticides can harm us and the environment. Instead, try natural pest control and repellent methods to keep your space pest-free. Natural pest control is safer and works well. It can keep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thriving tree laden with ripe red apples, and house in the background - Alexander Shapovalov/Getty Images There are plenty of ways ...

Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

Kinyua Nkanata, an avocado farmer from Meru County who uses solar pest traps to reduce the use of chemicals in fruit production. When Kinyua Nkanata's avocado waste jumped from 500 kilogrammes to 2.2 ...

The calendar says spring, but the weather hasn’t been agreeing with it. We are having cool nights and not normal warm days, along with not enough rain for this time of year. Hopefully these will get ...

L-R; Isaac Macharia, Principal Inspector, plant pathologist at Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), Dick Van Raamsdonk, General Director, HPP Exhibitions, Clement Tulezi, CEO, Kenya ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Mesa County agriculture authorities are warning of an impending threat to apple and pear crops this summer as codling moth larvae, a notorious orchard pest, begin to emerge in ...

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 ...