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Interesting. We had a fig tree growing up, and I must have eaten hundreds or thousands of them as a kid. I never remember seeing wasps, and I'm pretty sure I wo
by gnicholas 4y ago
Interesting. We had a fig tree growing up, and I must have eaten hundreds or thousands of them as a kid. I never remember seeing wasps, and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed!
- csours 4y agoThese wasps are tiny
- anon84873628 4y agoThey also dissolve by the time you eat the fruit
- morsch 4y agoThe article is evidence that they do not.
- californical 4y agoIt seems that normal fig wasps do dissolve with how long it takes to grow the fruit after pollination, but the wasps they found were separate from the normal ones and may have entered later
- culi 4y agoIt's quite possible you've eaten wasps even from store-bought figs. The wasps are very tiny
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoMind you that the fig wasp looks nothing like the insect we see of when we think of a wasp.
- tpm 4y agoThat's because there weren't any wasps. Only some fig varieties depend on them. Parthenocarpic cultivars don't (however the resulting fruits are sterile I think).