Native Fruit

Invasive ambrosia beetle is killing pawpaw trees just as Americans discover the fruit

Chris Chmiel, who founded the country's first pawpaw festival at Albany, Ohio, in 1999, has lost almost 70% of his orchard in six years; the only remedy is to cut and burn infested trees, and with no commercial-scale market no company will develop an insecticide, so Ohio State is studying the pest's