A browning and subsequent premature falling of the leaves, caused by the
work of a minute mite, is reported as rather common in Florida by Mr. H.
J. Webber, of the Subtropical Laboratory. It has not been studied.
Mr. Ellison A. Smith, jr., botanist and entomologist of South Carolina
Experiment Station, has published a list[1] of insects observed feeding
on ripe figs, but he does not mention any that injure the tree.
Footnote 1:
South Carolina Experiment Station, Annual Report, 1889, pp. 105, 106.
The list is as follows: Allorhina nitida (L.), Ptychodes trilineatus,
Lybithea bachmanni (Kirth), Apatura celtidis (Bd. Sec.), Grapta
interrogationis (F.), Pyrameis atalanta (L.).