The show goes on: Country Apple Orchard Fall Festival kicks off without apple picking, but plenty of apples

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They are called Western flower thrips – minute insects as wide as a needle and about .03 inches long. Thrips are attracted to the blossoms of apple trees and cause egg-laying punctures in the apple buds at about the half-inch green stage of development. Their primary damage usually occurring in mid-April.

For Country Apple Orchard the insect, along with …