Fig Pest Management Guidelines
UC agricultural management guidelines for control of fig pests. Relative Toxicities of Insecticides and Miticides Used in Figs to Natural Enemies and Honey Bees (1/09) Alternaria Rot (1/09) Aspergillus Rot (1/09) Botrytis Limb Blight (1/09) Fig ... [... more]
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Webspinning Spider Mites
UC Management Guidelines for Webspinning Spider Mites on Fig. The twospotted spider mite is most common in the Sacramento Valley and the Pacific spider mite in the San Joaquin Valley. Both species produce abundant webbing on both sides of the ... [... more]
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Botrytis Limp Blight
Development of Botrytis limb blight, also referred to as Botrytis dieback, begins when the fungus enters overwintering fruit and tips of shoots that have been damaged by frost. After invading fruit, the pathogen then moves into the shoots and ... [... more]
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Dagger nematode: Xiphinema index
Little information is available on damage to figs resulting from a nematode infestation. Lesion, root knot, and dagger nematodes are known to cause reduction in growth and yield. The trees are likely to be more susceptible to temperature and ... [... more]
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Cladosporium herbarum and Ulocladium altum
Alternaria rot, also known as surface mold, contact spot, or Alternaria internal rot, is a limiting factor in the production of figs for fresh market or for canning. All cultivars are susceptible, but the disease is most severe on Kadota, ... [... more]
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Scientific Name: Lepidosaphes conchiformis
Overwintering adults are dark brown with a greasy-appearing wax coating; summer broods and younger scales are lighter in color. Overwintering females are found on 1- to 2-year-old wood. Eggs are laid in spring, and crawlers hatch when leaves are ... [... more]
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Scientific Name: Amyelois transitella
The adult navel orangeworm moth is about 0.6 inch long and has short snoutlike projections from the front of the head. It is grayish brown in color with irregular silver and dark markings on the wings. Larvae are caterpillars that vary in color ... [... more]
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Carpenterworm
Carpenterworm larvae are woodboring insects and attack many species of deciduous fruit trees. Eggs are laid in crevices in the bark; the larvae hatch out by boring through the bottom of the egg directly into the wood. Larvae are cream colored ... [... more]
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Vinegar Flies
Drosophila adults are small, tan to amber-colored flies with red eyes, about 0.12 inch long. Larvae are small, white, legless maggots that are up to 0.2 inch long when mature. They differ from driedfruit beetle larvae in that they do not have a ... [... more]
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Darkling Ground Beetle
The adult beetle is oval shaped, dull black in color, and is about 0.25 inch long by 0.12 inch wide. The larvae, called false wireworms, are up to 0.5 inch long and cream to pale tan in color. Larvae feed on decaying organic matter in and on the ... [... more]
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Fig Mosaic
Fig mosaic can cause symptoms on both leaves and fruits. On leaves, mosaic spots are distinctly yellow, contrasting with normal green color of the foliage. The margins of the yellow spots blend gradually from a light yellow color into the dark ... [... more]
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Sour Rot
Symptoms of sour rot, or souring, are more distinct on fruit of cultivars that need no caprification (pollination), such as Adriatic figs. In cultivars needing caprification (e.g., Calimyrna), the symptoms of souring may be confused with the ... [... more]
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