Figs are here and they’re the talk of the town! Did you know many fig varieties are pollinated by wasps? The story doesn’t end there. The female wasp crawls inside the fig through a narrow hole and loses her wings in the process. If the fig is male, she lays her eggs inside. These hatch into larvae that burrow out, turn into wasps and fly off, carrying fig pollen with them. If the wasp climbs into a female fig, she pollinates it, but cannot lay her eggs and finds herself in her final resting place. Luckily, the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely. The crunchy bits are seeds, not wasp parts. #figs #figwasp #w#wasp #viral #Tiktok