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Fielding Questions: Tree ID, flowers but no cantaloupes, tomato fruit rot

Q: A modest-sized tree has burst into bloom this past week. Every year it has the same splendor. What is this tree with rich green leaves and overflowing with white blossoms? — Sam B. It’s Japanese ...
NPR

Not too hard, not too soft, rotting fruit is just right - for fruit fly maggots

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 ...
The Conversation

‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research

The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

Watermelons rot in fields as West Asia crisis continues

GADAG: Enraged by the drop in export demand because of the ongoing crisis in West Asia, farmers in and around Gadag who had ...