Growing fruit in a backyard or home orchard can be rewarding or can be very frustrating, depending on disease and insect pests that may be present. While it is tempting to plant fruit trees and not ...

It is not just apple trees that woolly apple aphids are troublesome pests of, as they also feed on crab apple trees, pear ...

The Bradford pear trees are incredibly invasive and non-native species that have spread rapidly ... Those seeds grow and push out native trees. This, too, becomes a problem for insects. It doesn’t ...