BASALT – Autumn often yields some of the best dry-fly fishing of the entire year.Blue-wing olives are one of the few mayfly species that hatches bi-annually, during both spring and fall. For most ...

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California’s Central Valley and Central Coast produce 99% of the olives grown in the United States. The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, first discovered in California in the Los Angeles area in ...

Rancho Bernardo — At Bernardo Winery, one of the oldest olive oil producers in California, oil flow has come to a standstill. While the Rancho Bernardo company has historically produced 300 to 400 ...

It's gotten so bad in the North Bay, what with invading fruit flies making a mess of many olives grown for oil, that custom crusher Deborah Rogers is calling herself the "wicked witch of the harvest." ...

The olive fly is one of the main pests threatening the quality and viability of olive oil in the region. Due to the damage it does, decreasing the weight and quantity of the fruit, and the increasing ...

The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the main pest of the olive fruit and its expansion is exclusively restricted to the cultivation zone of the olive tree. Even though olive production has a ...

Next time you drizzle olive oil on your salad, give a thought to the larvae of the olive fly, which love olives as much as you do. Every year in Catalonia, Spain, farmers have to fight these pests so ...