Figs and wasps have a symbiotic relationship dating back millions of years. While the claim that every fig you eat has a dead wasp inside it isn't true, it is the case that fig wasps are the ...

This fig wasp proves that plants of the fig genus existed in the amber forest, even though no direct evidence of fig trees or shrubs has turned up in Dominican amber. Each species of fig today has ...

An agent from the U.S. Department of Agriculture collected these wasps in Italy and Algeria and shipped them back home in 1899, where the figs delivered their promise. At the industry’s peak in ...

The animal I sought, however, was in hiding. I picked a fig and split it with my finger. A brown wasp emerged, slightly stunned. The wasp had lived its entire life inside that fig. It was no ...

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Wasps and fig trees swap favors: the fruit serves as the insects' breeding grounds and the wasps pollinate the plants. Some fig tree species can discourage wasps that don't participate in the exchange ...

The female fig wasp plays a key part in the pollination of fig trees. There are a handful of days when a fig - which is not a fruit, but a type of flower - is in the correct stage of development ...

Gowri, a documentary filmmaker, travels with her cameraman Vittal to a remote village in search of a musical teacher for her project, which requires her to study how music is shaped by different ...

In mammals, the five WASP and WAVE proteins each comprise approximately 500 amino acids and have similar domain architecture 8 (Fig. 1). Figure 1: Domains and basic binding partners of N-WASP and ...

One of the first sequences in the opening episode of A Perfect Planet (‘The Sun’) shows how fig wasps pollinate the trees which feed hundreds of animal species. With all of the action taking ...