It is true that many trees that produce figs would go extinct without wasps, which are key pollinators that lay their eggs in ...

the fig wasp. This intricate partnership, forged over millions of years, is a testament to nature’s remarkable ability to ...

This time: Do figs contain dead wasps? These days many of the fig varieties that we buy in grocery stores and at farmers markets in the US don’t require pollination. Mission, those purplish ...

and perhaps nothing exemplifies this symbiosis better than the fig and the fig wasp. Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis explains why even though the fig's ...

If you like figs then it could be argued that you have a taste for wasps. The relationship between figs and fig wasps is arguably the most interdependent pollination symbiosis known to science ...

Y: Dried figs. Want one? D: No thanks. I'm still getting used to the idea that every fig has a dead wasp inside. Broken down into protein, but still... Y: Wait. Say that again? D: Sounds like ...

That’s when figs first evolved, probably in Eurasia, possibly in China—but certainly in conjunction with the tiny wasps that pollinate them. Since then, as figs have spread around the world ...

which includes the banyan and the peepul and equal number of specific species of fig wasps to pollinate them. The process of pollination for figs is unique. Since fig flowers bloom internally ...

Wasps also play a crucial role in ecosystems as specialist pollinators. The relationship between figs and fig wasps is arguably the most interdependent pollination symbiosis known to man.