For home orchardists in Western Washington, the arrival in the 1980s of apple maggot, a highly destructive pest common in the eastern United States, has been discouraging. In less than 15 years, the ...
Last week I urged readers with apple trees to set traps for the apple maggot fly, a highly destructive and common local pest. For now, traps offer the fewest drawbacks of the available controls. There ...