By Katie Drewitz University of Minnesota Extension PRESTON and CALEDONIA, MN, June 30, 2026 – As the apples on your trees ...

There’s something quietly satisfying about reaching up and pulling ripe fruit straight from a tree in your own backyard. One ...

Fruit trees can always benefit from extra help. Many require consistent moisture and need lots of bees around to produce a bumper crop. Fruit trees can be plagued by a long list of pests and are ...

Ahead of the critical farming season, SKUAST-K issues dos and don’ts for apple growers, guiding crop care, pest control and ...

The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) is the most important insect pest to Minnesota grown apples and typically starts to become active in July. Heavily infested apples are distorted, inedible and ...

While experts previously estimated the number of Earth’s insect species at 6 million, scientists say a new analysis shows ...

Unsplash If you’ve grown a peach, apple, or cherry tree for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly met the enemy. Tiny, soft-bodied, and deceptively inconspicuous at first glance, ...

SINGAPORE – Battered by storms, Singapore’s older forests have been losing their larger trees over the past three decades, a national research programme has revealed. Under the tropical forest ecology ...

Karell Reader’s heart sank when she saw acres of apple trees piled up on her neighbor’s Watsonville farm last month. Her neighbor used to sell apples to California cider empire S. Martinelli & Company ...

The three most common types of tent caterpillars in Canada are the Eastern tent, the Western tent, and the Forest tent caterpillar. Tent caterpillars are social creatures. Caterpillars from one egg ...

One type of apple insect control sprays should be applied shortly after the flower blossoms fall from the tree, according to Don Kinzler, horticulturist with North Dakota State University Extension ...