When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside the chewy fruits, he found the shriveled remains ...

The luscious fig is a fruit eaten all over the world – fresh, dried, in jams, ice creams and a score of other dishes. But there’s more to a fig fruit than what meets the eye. The fig fruit, called a ...

Q: We recently came back to Tucson from a week in San Diego to find about a hundred or more June bugs on our mature fig tree. We have lived here for over 20 years and this has never happened before.

Philadelphia — When Colin Purrington looked at a sample of dried figs under a microscope recently, he answered a question that had been bugging him for years. Inside the chewy fruits, he found the ...

KOHAT: The decades old fig trees are fast dying in many orchards here after being attacked by a pest called borer. The experts blame the problem on the lack of awareness on part of fig growers. Fig ...

My barely heated greenhouse kept me in fresh figs well into fall, but decreased light and increased cold have made those fruits mere memory. Now I eat dried figs, to me a whole different fruit: ...

I was at the pool this past week and one of my readers asked me a question about fig trees. Fig trees traditionally are a tropical fruit you won’t see growing outside in Jeromesville. At least that is ...