How’s Your Apples? or Battling the Apple Maggot Fall is the time of year that many unfortunate home gardeners find out they have an apple maggot problem. It is unfortunate not only that they have a destructive pest problem to deal with, but also because they have lost out on a season’s worth of apples! The good news is both … Read More
Red Spider Mites
Red Spider Mites are an arachnid, having 4 pairs of legs, no antennae and have a single oval body. They live on the underside of leaves and since they are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence they somewhat hard to identify. Adult spider mites will pierce the plant cell and suck the fluid, leaving … Read More