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My "improved brown Turkey" produced outstanding fruit for a few years until it got about 8 feet high by 10 feet wide, and loaded with fruit. Now the fruit gets spoiled fairly early in the season by tiny fig sour beetles that enter through the open "eye" and introduce a bacteria or something that makes the fruit inedible, and by the big, green shiny fig beetles that cluster all over the ripe fruit and eat the flesh (they're big, but still small enough to go right through the bird netting). Does anybody have effective ways of dealing with either pest? I was able to stop the fig sour beetles last year on some of the fruit by sealing the "eye" of hard, green figs with a drop of white glue, but it's far too labor-intensive. Is anyone aware of effective traps for either beetle? Also, can anyone recommend closed-eye varieties similar to brown Turkey and suitable for Tucson, Arizona? Thanks very much!

See http://figs4fun.com/basics_Intro.html and more specifically http://figs4fun.com/More_Info_Bird.html for controlling the big green fig beetles.

Beetles !
   Yesterday, I found hundreds of small brown beetles on new growth of my Celeste tree.
The size of Ladybugs , except brown.
The County Agent called them  Kudzu Beetles.
Brought here to eat the vegetable pest called Kudzu vine. Now, they are spreading!
They eat / suck most fruit trees, etc. HA! One man told me they will eat plastic house siding!
  I sprayed , only a few strays now.   Keep your eyes open for these pests.
                                                                    Fredfig

I just ordered some mosquito netting off of Ebay.  It was something like $30 for 30 feet x 10 feet or something like that.   You can get it at some military supply stores of which there should be plenty of around AZ.  There is one in Mesa. 

Sorry, I  just noticed you posted this in 2009.  I'm sure you got that problem handled already.  

So i just got the netting and it's actually 60 ft x 5 ft for $30, so not a bad deal.   I might make a suit for myself so I won't get bitten.  

Mosquito netting sounds like a great idea.  I hate messing with bird netting....mospuito netting might be easier to work with....don't know, I've never had any.

Mosquito netting is awesome and makes great hanging drapes for the outside deck.

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