Grape growers aren’t the only ones confronting new pests. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is battling two new apple pests in British Columbia. Apple maggot, first recorded in Canada in 1896, was discovered at several locations in Abbotsford, an hour’s drive east of Vancouver, last August. British Columbia was previously free of the insect, which is a major pest of apples in eastern Canada. The maggot burrows through fruit, discoloring the flesh and leaving it vulnerable to fungi. The maggot is a quarantine pest in Canada. April Ingraham, regional program officer in the B.C. Interior for the Canadian Food Inspection […]