Psacothea hilaris, the yellow-spotted longhorn beetle, belongs to the family Cerambycidae. The beetle is black with yellow spots on its wing covers. Immature longhorn beetles, called larvae, look like little worms. The larva bores deep into the wood of ficus trees and remains there until it emerges as an adult. The adult does not bore, but only eats the leaves of the ficus, according to EPPO. Other longhorn beetle larvae which bore into ficus belong to the genera parandra, batocera and cyllene. Hesperophanes sericeus attacks ficus carica in Iran, according to Cyrus Abivardi.
Jewel beetles belong to the family buprestidae. Their popular name aptly describes the iridescent appearance. Their larvae, whose habits closely resemble those of the longhorn beetle, have received the name "flat-headed borers" because of the shape of their head. Colobogaster cyanitaris, belongs to the jewel beetle family. Its larva attacks ficus in tropical regions like Brazil.
Marshallius bonelli is another borer that attacks ficus, according to Universidade Federale de Uberlandia. This beetle belongs to the weevil family curculionidae. Weevils have received the descriptive name "snout beetles" because it looks just as if they have a long Pinocchio-like nose.
Sinoxylon muricatum belongs to the bostrichidae, the branch borer family. Beetles of this family tend to bore into dead or dying trees. Sinoxylon muricatum attacks ficus carica, according to BioLib. Beetles of the genus dinoderus also belong to the family bostrichidae. Some species of dinoderus attack ficus, according to the Institute of Entomology.
Such bark borers as hylesinus oleiperda and hypoborus ficus will assail the bark of fig trees. They usually attack small, dying branches, according to l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. Bark borers belong to the family scolytidae, but some systems group them with the snout beetles in curculionidae.
The larvae of some moths bore into tissues of ficus. Species of the genera trachytyla and scalmatica bore into the aerial roots that characteristically hang down from the branches of ficus trees. These borers belong to the family tineidae, the same family to which the clothes moth belongs, according to the Institute of Entomology.
Paropta paradoxa, commonly called the carpenter worm, bores into both grape vines and the twigs of fig trees, according to Springerlink. This moth belongs to a family of borers called cossidae.
Certain mites bore the softer vegetation of ficus. Aceria ficus preys upon the buds while rhyncaphytoptus ficifoliae attacks the leaves, according to EurekaMag.