Gardeners who plant apple trees are hopeful souls, putting in saplings as they dream of future pies, sauce and tarts. With each season of growth, we croon encouragement at the plant. To have an apple ...

Q: My apples are pretty much a lost cause this year after super cold, super windy and now super hot weather. I expected a small crop (from the apples) but not this blight. It starts with a “poke” in ...

Five years ago, after a retired University of California professor found a light brown apple moth in his Berkeley back yard, the state and federal government responded with a blitzkrieg. Warning that ...

Now that apple trees are finishing blooming, it’s time to consider how to handle codling moth and apple maggot so you don’t end up with wormy apples. Codling moth adults are about 3/4 inch long with ...

The discovery of three light brown apple moths this week near Fort Bragg is triggering a quarantine to limit further spread of the non-native pest that feeds on some 2,000 plant species and their ...

Most of Rancho Bernardo and parts of 4S Ranch and Poway are under a quarantine due to the presence of the light brown apple moth. Part of Rancho Penasquitos and all of Del Sur and Santaluz are also ...

A nine-square-mile area of Long Beach was under a plant-and-fruit quarantine Wednesday. The culprit? Sixteen light brown apple moths in the area, according to the state Department of Food and ...