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Fig Wasp

a week ago I found a fruit similar to fig fruit. There are many insects inside it.
I put that fruit in plastic and stored in the refrigerator.

I dunno what kind insect is that. Or maybe it is a fig wasp? In Indonesia, i never heard anything about the fig development that require pollination.

if anyone can help?














Possible, but most films I have seen make them look translucent.  Since fig wasps don't thrive in the Northeast region of USA, I have never seen in person.


Sorry

They look very similar to what I saw (for the first time) on a F.carica in

the Mediterranean Sea region. I assumed that they were some fig-wasp?...

On top of the fruit, around the eye, there was some liquid (nectar/dew)

and they were stuck to it. Many others flew away when I just disturbed them.

After a few hours, that liquid dried up and except 1 or 2 inside the fruit,

they all flew away.

 

I beleive that only males are white/translucent.

He has no wings and he never leaves the fruit.

After having some fun and doing his duty the ladies; he just dies in there!

 

The females are much darker and do have wings so as to travel.

They enter a new receptive fruit thru the eye (shedding their wings doing so),

pollinate some flowers that produce viable fig-seeds, lay an egg in some

others (no fig-seeds b/c of baby wasp eating); and then they die too...

 

First URL below shows a (kind) of female fig-wasp that looks very similar too...

 

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/arbimg10.htm#lifecycle
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fig_wasp

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@ Dominick : thanks..
@ George : i see on top of the fruit, there was nothing.
this fruit tasteless.

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Originally Posted by tokechan
@ Dominick : thanks..
@ George : i see on top of the fruit, there was nothing.
this fruit tasteless.



@Tokechan ,  did you try to put them on your figs tree...?
     who knows  they can breed at your garden and pollinate your  figs fruit..
Best regrds

@zaitun. i only have doesnt require polinate fig.
last month, some indonesian fig community, trading with a turk. trade their collection with some kind of turkey fig. Are you Mr. Ahmad Fauzi??

Quote:
Originally Posted by tokechan
@zaitun. i only have doesnt require polinate fig.
last month, some indonesian fig community, trading with a turk. trade their collection with some kind of turkey fig. Are you Mr. Ahmad Fauzi??



Salam...

Hi Tokechan...
It is a Bursa Figs for pollination experiment and they are  still in small pot  for rooting . i could send them ( Male and Female )  to you once they  grow up .and becoming  a mature tree.
Nice to meet you here.

Best regards.





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Wa'alaikum salam.
i think local climate in my place is not suitable for that. It's kinda hot in here. :(
Anw, thanks for the offer. I do appreciate that.
 

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