If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

While in school, every child learns the basic parts of a flower and how insects, such as bees, buzz from flower to flower, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 1, 2017) The Fig wasp is the pollinator of the month for March. A highly evolved pollinator crucial to the life cycle of the fig tree, the fig wasp is part of the chalcidoid ...

Figs are sweet, edible fruits often sold by themselves, in jams, or as a base for desserts, and they're pollinated by wasps—not bees. Perhaps you're hesitant to purchase figs after hearing the rumor ...

Did you know, figs aren't fruit? So what are they? Have you ever heard of the Fig Wasp? Read what I wrote to learn more about ...

A Brazilian researcher describes 129 species of fig tree parasites which compete and even prey upon the fig wasps during the many phases of the fig-wasp mutualism that helped to shape both plant and ...

It was eye-opening when we learned that artichokes are actually flowers. And that capers are pickled flower buds. But coming across what figs really are ― and the wasp that makes them possible ― has ...

Researchers from Uppsala University and elsewhere have been studying the effect of rising temperatures on the lifespan of pollinating fig wasps. The findings show that the wasps lived much shorter ...