Comment on spoopy figs
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 week agoI don’t think that’s true. Apparently even Aristotle has spoken about fig wasps (without really understanding what they are or do of course). And it seems like all fig trees are dependent on this kind of pollination.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 6 days ago
I used to have some fig trees, I’d always have to be careful around them as they’d be full of wasps.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Oh, you’re thinking of wasps like yellowjackets. “Fig wasp” uses the taxonomic term “wasp”. There are hundreds of thousands of parasitic wasp species out there that most people aren’t familiar with. Fig wasps are gall wasps and are really tiny! Like so small you can hardly see them by the naked eye. It is fascinating how so small beings can fly distances of many kilometers when they are only a millimeter in size.