Several of my trees look like this on multiple branches!

I have the same problem I will take pics tomorrow I think its a squirrel that ate up the bark

There are squirrels running around my back yard. Something took close to 60 Jalepenos off my pepper plants a few weeks ago. I suspect it is a squirrel for those. Hope it is shooting out fireballs for a few days.! Didn't think that they would eat the leaf buds off my figs though.

We have a lot of oak trees and walnut trees around my yard so there's many squirrels just hope they don't take my figs of this year

Crap!  That's the same thing happening to my cuttings in my shop that I just posted about.  For me, it's a Norwegian rat...and I've declared war.

Time to start trapping or otherwise eliminating squirrels now or there will be even more when the figs ripen.

They WILL eat figs!

When I saw the cleanly snipped off shoot my first thought was deer although supposedly figs are not one of their favorite things.  Maybe the deer are extra hungry where you are?

Critters!  There are so many kinds, and they just don't stop!  At least if you have roots, the cutting will bounce back, so you got hope.  Fungus Gnats and Gophers are my worst enemy.  Don't think we have rats, but not too confident about that.  We do have voles, and every plant here has 2' of gopher wire surrounding it's trunk.  They can't get through that, but voles AKA field mice love to eat bark.

Good luck getting rid of whatever critter this is!

Suzi

definitely not deer, (enclosed backyard). I'll look into squirrel protection. They are pretty sneaky and tease my dogs everyday.

In my yard in Hayward, I have deer, raccoons, squirrels, turkeys, possums, and even roof rats.  They peel my oranges.  They eat all the new growth on my roses.  They eat the walnuts, leaving only the shells.  I understand the deer don't like figs, but I wouldn't put it past them.

I have the same problem for some time,until I killed 2 big rats.

They make a lot of damage to my tree.

I live in the country. We have squirrels racoons rats etc. And never had this problem. But somthing is eati g my chickens! !

That was a newly planted cutting

That horrible jc. That would really piss me off and would seek revenge

When I seen it I was mad but I'm pretty sure it will resprout

Oh yea it will. Probably have extra big root system for size of sprout and grow really nice for you.

I hope so and I will post videos and pics because my cousin she have very big fig trees around her yard I'm pretty sure there BT but the oldest one have severe fmv but produces more than u birds squirrels racoon's and neighbors can eat

What is FMV LOOK LIKE AND abd wgat effect does it have on figs?? So far in Louisiana we dont gave the famous fungus knats that i here people talk about .... good thing. Now i am trying to figure out FMV. ----- RICHIE

Its fig mosaic virus or fig mosaic disease but it affects a plants vigor fruit production and leaf growth but it affects some varieties more than others

Thanks.

Your welcome