Behold the life cycle of male fig wasps. They pupate inside the fig and then mate with an unhatched female. Their next order of business is to burrow a hole to the outside world, which the female wasps can use once they too hatch and pupate. The males of many species of have no wings, and quickly die outside the fig. Thus female fig wasps are hatched ready-fertilized, ready to find another fig to continue the cycle.
Love the Fig | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
By Ben Crair The produce section of the grocery store is a botanical disaster. Most people know that a tomato is technically a fruit, but so is an eggplant, ...
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