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 ...

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 ...

The image seems innocuous enough: the classic worm-in-the-apple cartoon. In reality, the highly narrativized codling moth can destroy 80 percent to 90 percent of an apple crop within one to two years ...

While apple trees in Casper and Wyoming have many challenges, including late freezes which reduce blooming, fire blight, scale and rust, most fruit damage is caused by a little insect called a codling ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s, scientists from the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture were working in south Africa on a programme to help table grape exporters apply the sterile ...