> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Andre Abelian
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:23 PM
>
> Hi to all
>
> My daughter without knowing sprayed ant killing spray on fig tree
> to kill ants. since then the tree stopped producing figs and all leafs are
> turning yellow slowly. I cleaned as much as I could but it looks like the
tree got
> infected or so any idea?

I seem to recall that some species of fig are pollinated mainly by ants. If
your fig is one of these then this scenario seems plausible. Ants die, fig
not being pollinated, no pollination = no fruit, no fruit triggers foliage
die off. Test by hand pollinating and see if fig tree recovers.

Paul

>
>
> thank you
>
> Andre

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