What Killed My Fig Tree

[CooterBrown]

What Killed My Fig Tree? It has small holes all along the main body of the trunk with like sawdust just pocking out the little holes.

 

[homerj1]

Borers in Fig Trees

The fig tree was brought to America in 1575 from Asia Minor and the Mediterranean, where it had been grown abundantly since 5,000 B.C. Cultivation in the Americas yielded no fruit on many varieties until the fig tree wasp was also imported for pollination. Most early varieties were very...

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[CooterBrown]

Guess they will get the tree 20 foot from it to? That article says no treatment will help.

 

[SwampCat]

All my fig trees were killed by the cold weather - then the borers got into them