this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
184 points (95.1% liked)

Science Memes

10023 readers
3025 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

Sister Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
184
Fig 1 (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 10 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This post has a very good title OP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The title was the best part

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Question: if I buy figs commercially, will they contain dead wasps? Or, is this something that only happens naturally?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

By the time the fig gets to you, the wasp would long have been digested/dissolved by the plant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Seriously, can not overstate how weird figs are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Figs, dude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

As far as I know it isn't actually something that happens with the figs we eat. I think it is a specific type of fig and a specific wasp that does this.

Also, the wasp in question is absolutely tiny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No. Different fig.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Like Tony, all male wasps die