As Head Library Cat for seven years at the Arkansas School for the Blind, Footsie has grown up with many of the children who visit him, as Krisha Williams Turbeville reports in Tuesday's Style section ...

If you grow apples in your back yard, you probably already know about apple maggots, the pests that leave fruit an inedible, mushy brown mess. Apple maggots hang out in the ground through the winter ...

Though I grow 41 varieties of apples, some years I have very few apples to harvest. It is not because of poor fruit set but because apple maggot flies destroy most of them. At last there is an ...