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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This post has a very good title OP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The title was the best part

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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 4 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 4 months ago

Seriously, can not overstate how weird figs are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Figs, dude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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 4 months ago

No. Different fig.

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

Like Tony, all male wasps die