A nine-square-mile area of Long Beach was under a plant-and-fruit quarantine Wednesday. The culprit? Sixteen light brown apple moths in the area, according to the state Department of Food and ...

The image seems innocuous enough: the classic worm-in-the-apple cartoon. In reality, the highly narrativized codling moth can destroy 80 percent to 90 percent of an apple crop within one to two years ...

If you have fruit trees, now’s the time to be on the lookout for codling moths. This is the time of year — mid-March to early April — when the adult codling moth, a little grayish-brown lepidopteran, ...

County agricultural officials have expanded the boundaries of a light brown apple moth quarantine to include portions of Morro Bay. The area of the quarantine now extends from Cayucos to just south of ...