Here's how it works: A female wasp crawls into a small opening in the fig, pollinates the flowers inside and lays eggs. The ...

According to Bon Appétit, when a female wasp enters a fig that requires pollination, a gruesome process occurs: during the egg-laying process, the female wasp's antennae snap, and her wings are ...

Fig wasps and fig trees share a fascinating and ... ratios can vary significantly based on the number of mothers laying eggs in the same fig, leading to mismatches with theoretical predictions ...

This fig wasp proves that plants of the fig genus existed ... Instead, the beetle lays its eggs on or near flowers. When its larvae hatch, they wait for a wasp to alight on the flower to imbibe ...