Apple maggot is the most serious insect pest of apples in Minnesota. In July, apple maggot flies lay their eggs under the skin of the fruit.

Q: I have three goodland apple trees. They are an excellent apple for eating and cooking. However, this year the apples have a brown discoloration in the meat of the fruit. This discoloration looks ...

Q: I read your column in our local newspaper every week and find it to be very helpful. We had a bad problem with apple maggots in two of our apple trees the last two years. Last spring, we sprayed ...

Q: I finally harvested the apples from my Fireside tree this week, and almost all of them look like this — pitted and shrunken, with brown streaks inside. What happened? Are they still edible? A: ...

On a sunny spring afternoon near Selah, a crew hired by Yakima County cut down an apple tree. This wasn’t a case of a tree growing in the right-of-way of a new road or interfering with utility lines.