Authorities evacuated a building along Smith Ranch Road in San Rafael on Tuesday to investigate a suspicious package that turned out to be 20 pounds of rotting fruit, police said. The package was ...

Brown rot pathogens, predominantly within the genus Monilinia, represent a significant threat to stone fruit production worldwide. These fungal agents infect fruits such as peaches, plums and apricots ...

Brown rot represents one of the most economically significant diseases affecting stone fruit production, with a global impact on crops such as peaches, nectarines, and apricots. The disease is ...

Ever bite into a delicious-looking apple, only to be rewarded with a chunk of mealy pulp? Or take a swig of milk, and get something lumpy in your mouth? Yeah, yuck. Well, it turns humans have company ...

Fruit flies are attracted to ripe, rotting, or fermenting produce and can breed in moist areas like drains. Homemade traps using apple cider vinegar, overripe fruit, wine, or beer can effectively ...

Fruit flies, the uninvited guests who crash your kitchen like it's happy hour at a banana peel. These tiny pests are drawn to ripe, rotting or fermenting fruits and veggies, but they can also appear ...

A suspicious package that prompted a building to be evacuated and a bomb squad to respond turned out to be a box of rotten fruit, San Rafael police said. The incident was reported Tuesday morning at ...