Being an industrious newbie and a little ocd, I started to read up on fig-related insects, mostly undesirable, but of course, those few necessary good-guys too, especially the capri wasps. As promised, here is a further barrage of questions:

1) Do all figs require a capri wasp for pollination, or is there such a thing as a self-fertile fig?
2) Is insect scale a major problem, and can a dormant/oil spray be used in winter to keep scale in check, as for many other fruit trees? If not, how is scale controlled?
3) Can organic, insecticidal soap be used during the growing/fruiting season.
4) Is the fig borer a problem in all areas where figs are grown, or are there areas where they are more of a problem, or less of a problem? I read that the fig borer has to lay her eggs at the base of the fig tree, within a few inches of the ground, and that the trees can be protected if a light, fine-mesh fabric is wrapped around the lower part of the stem/trunk, covering the area where the soil meets the trunk. Is this true?
5) As the capri wasp is necessary to fig culture, would either the dormant oil spray or an insecticidal soap be a threat to it?
6) l'm guessing that even an organic spray during the fruiting season might be disasterous because it could actually get into the fruit itself?

The recent posts by Saad_Emhamed with questions and responses regarding capri figs and wasps are all the more interesting knowing this.

An interesting point I picked up: the fig fruit is an inside-out flower. It makes perfect sense. Talk about highly specialized mutualism between the figs and the wasps...Wow!

Thanks for bearing with me!