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aliok1

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Posted 1394752738	Reply with quote #1

Figs wasp sale video from Turkey

JR

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Posted 1394755524	Reply with quote #2

Nice !!!!! :-D

gorgi

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Posted 1394759642	Reply with quote #3

That is a lot of fig-wasps! Given the right timing/distribution, there should be enough of them to caprify all the figs in the whole USA. __________________ George, NJ_z7a.

hoosierbanana

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Posted 1394761880	Reply with quote #4

Are those all the male wasps? I did not notice any of them flying around. __________________ 7a, DE

gorgi

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Posted 1394789066	Reply with quote #5

NO; only the females do the flying around. Them poor males never see the sunshine. They have some fun with the ladies and then they just die inside the caprifig... Meanwhile, the females after finding a new right fig host, they shed their wings while entering through the eye. They caprify the new host with pollen from the old host and try to lay eggs for the next wasp generation and then die inside. Don't worry; by the time the fruit ripens, all dead wasp material will be digested by the developing fruit. __________________ George, NJ_z7a.

gorgi

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Posted 1394874964	Reply with quote #6

Referring to my last sentence above, I forgot to mention one other bizarre/complex fact. Female fig flower 'style' can be either short or long. The female wasp can only deposit her eggs through the short ones. Most 'common' figs have a long flower style, so the fig wins; seeds are viable and fruit is edible. Wasp looses - no babies. Most caprifigs have a short flower style; both fig and wasp win/benefit; another generation of fig 'pollinating/capriying' wasps is born. A very much more complex fact, is the sex-genetics involved (and I do not fully understand it!) of how the Common, San Pedro, Smyrna and Caprifigs fig-types are actually conceived... __________________ George, NJ_z7a.

elin

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Thanks Aliok I remember the times when no one had mobile phones and now even a 2 year old kids carries it.. same for these wasps i hope... __________________ Eli ,Israel ,Zone 10? Too humid and hot, yada yada yada https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1298814119 Growing: Sbayi, Hmadi, Black Portugal, Black Brazil,Excell, Flanders, Hmari , RDB, Niagra Black,Natalina, CDDN,Maya, Preto Torres, Preto Arge

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