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[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Only true for some varieties of figs. Most of the common fresh eating figs don't use the wasp for pollination at all

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Huh, didn't know that the fig fruit was also the flower.

So does the wasp simply help the propigation of the fig tree when it poliniates or does it helps the fig fruit ripen?

I know fig trees can also propgate via cutings too, so I'm wondering how essential wasps are to fig farms.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Every fruit begins as a flower....

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The video said that the unripe friut is the flower. Unless I misunderstood something it sounds like there's not a traditional blossom. And the wasp cralws into the fruit to polenate it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah all the flowers are on the inside of a fig. That's actually more or less the fruit you eat too, a bunch of sweet flowers compressed in a pod. Figs are super weird.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any wasp I see. It's a fig wasp. Pearly guillotine. It's a fig wasp. When the harvest's clean. It's a fig wasp. It's a winged machine. It's a fig wasp.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did your god know, insects grow, in my pome? Whoo!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Most figs you get in the store are not pollinated by fig wasps.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll allow it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you Waspy

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