If you grow apples in your back yard, you probably already know about apple maggots, the pests that leave fruit an inedible, mushy brown mess. Apple maggots hang out in the ground through the winter ...

Though I grow 41 varieties of apples, some years I have very few apples to harvest. It is not because of poor fruit set but because apple maggot flies destroy most of them. At last there is an ...

Recently I asked David Conners, president of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, whether that group was selling bags to protect apples and other fruits from apple maggot flies. He said the organization ...