Inside the rounded fruit of a fig tree is a maze of flowers. That is, a fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem. Because ...

If the female wasp arrives in a male fig—also known as a caprifig—she lays her eggs and then dies. Her eggs hatch, with blind, flightless male wasps hatching first.

In these (about 400) varieties, all the figs on each tree behave as either male or female. To pollinate these species, a female fig wasp, just a couple of millimeters long, ...

It may seem obvious that figs get a green check for anyone living with a vegan diet, but that's actually not the case. Here's ...

The male wasps dig a hole, allowing the females to escape with eggs and pollen and carry them to another fig tree. The mother wasp dies after laying eggs, which means she perishes inside the fig.

In the summer, the fig tree produces a synconium that is ready to receive the pollen bearing wasps that emerges from winter-spring synconium. The summer synconium has only gall flowers and female ...

One Tiny Wasp Turns a Fig Tree Into a 150-Foot-High Eden. Birds, bats, monkeys by the dozen: A fruiting fig tree is a riot of life. It all goes back to the tree's ancient partnership with an insect.

Some fig varieties are pollinated by a “fig wasp” that enters and dies inside the fruit, but there are no fig wasps inside the fruit growing in our area. GROW THEM IN A CONTAINER There are ...

By the time the fig was ripe, the wasp was gone and so was the irritating substance. Today, we have figs that have been bred not to need wasp pollination, but the plant hasn’t caught onto that ...

In 2023, a US grocer recalled over 10,000 cases of broccoli-cheddar soup over concerns they contained too much of an ...