Recently, I was on a tour of a watermelon farm and the farmer informed me that they were struggling to control water melon flies. Here are simple ways to control this vicious pest. The fly attacks the ...

The spotted-wing drosophila is a type of fruit fly that can destroy berry crops if not killed by insecticides. According to a new study, the smell of a crop-damaging fungus could provide an ...

Fresh fruit should not be moved outside of the more than 1,000 acres of quarantined farmland to prevent the spread of the Mexican fruit flies.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced this week that a local crop quarantine implemented across Santa Clara County last year due to the Oriental fruit fly has been lifted ...

“This is serious and reckless behavior. If they spread, these flies can destroy crops,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “This County’s farms and everybody’s food ...

LAWTON -- It might be more difficult to make a living than it was in crop dusting's glory days, but pilots say there's still a place in agriculture for aerial chemical application. The industry has ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Amos Morori harvests water melons on his farm along River Kerio in Elgeyo Marakwet County ...

Fruit flies are a nuisance wherever you may be. But growers in California are dealing with an insect problem on a whole other scale. Crops on the West Coast are facing a fruit-fly infestation, thanks ...