You’ve probably heard rumors about figs being filled with dead wasps. That's only sort of true. It is true that, without fig ...

Enter the fig wasp. For the 900 species of fig tree, there are a perfectly corresponding 900 species of fig wasp — each pollinating one type of fig. These wasps are small — no longer than an ...

The female fig wasp plays a key part in the pollination of fig trees. There are a handful of days when a fig - which is not a fruit, but a type of flower - is in the correct stage of development ...

This fig wasp proves that plants of the fig genus existed in the amber forest, even though no direct evidence of fig trees or shrubs has turned up in Dominican amber. Each species of fig today has ...