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cw: descriptions of bugs in plants that end up in Fig Newtons This is cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig#Ecology The fertilized female wasp enters the fig through the scion, which is a tiny hole in the crown (the ostiole). She crawls on the inflorescence inside the fig and pollinates some of the female flowers. She lays her eggs inside some of the flowers and dies. After weeks of development in their galls, the male wasps emerge before females through holes they produce by chewing the galls. The male wasps then fertilize the females by depositing semen in the hole in the gall. The males later return to the females and enlarge the holes to enable the females to emerge.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:00:06 +0000

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