Fig souring (or sour rot) renders fruit inedible. It’s caused by yeast and bacteria, usually spread by insects. You’ll know it by the fermented smell, clear ooze from the fig’s eye and eventually, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple weeks ago we discussed various types of fig trees which perform well in ...

To prevent fig tree borers, plant a healthy tree with a ring of fine mesh netting about two-inches from the bark to prevent adult borers from depositing eggs. Advertisement.

Replacing the tropical fig tree that fell in El Pueblo de Los Angeles plaza with a coast live oak would ... especially fungus-carrying beetles such as the polyphagous and Kuroshio shot hole borers.