Trees & Vines

January 15, 2025
Winter sanitation still key to controlling beetle pests

Orchard sanitation after harvest, including mummy removal, remains the best step nut growers can take to battle the Pacific flatheaded borer and carpophilus beetle.

Photo/Vicky Boyd

December 18, 2024
Borer pest in Lake County pear fruit 'mind-boggling'

Pacific flatheaded borers typically bore into the trunks and branches of trees, but for the past two years, they have been found inside pear fruit in Lake County, leaving researchers baffled.

Photo/Clebson Gomes Gonçalves