Can self fertile common figs host fig wasps or is it only capri figs that host these creatures. Also can you import into your garden dead capri figs and establish them in your common figs? Thanks.

Yes they can.

They will pollinate the seeds making them viable, the fruit to swell (get larger), and have been told make them taste better.

I am in Connecticut and looking to try using a couple pollinated Capri figs from a friend out West if possible.

I was told around June here, to hang a paper bag tied to a plant and the wasps will emerge to try what you are asking.

Great question. I am looking forward to trying pollination here, other responses and helping if I can down the road.

Mike

Is it a thing that wasp pollinated figs taste better?

The wasps over winter in the caprifigs. However, common figs can be caprified, which changes their color and flavor, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse.

Eboone.  To clarify. Can I collect old dried out hanging capri figs that haven't dropped each year to fertilize my flowers instead of starting a capri fig?

i will do without the protein

Noel - I am not an expert with experience, just reporting what I have read. 
I think that the 'dried out hanging caprifigs' are not what you want.
There are 3 crops of caprifigs, the one that hangs on over the winter is the mamme crop, and the wasps overwinter in it, and that crop does not have the pollen.
The next crop is the profichi crop, which forms in the spring and matures around June in CA, I think.  This is the caprifig that  has pollen, and the one you would collect and hang in your fig orchard at the right time.  Someone else will need to help you with timing  :)
The next crop of caprifigs is the mammoni which I think matures in late summer/early fall.
In each crop of the caprifig, the wasps mature from egg to larvae to adult, and leave to find the next crop all at about the same time.    The fig wasps are not looking to pollinate figs, they are looking for female flowers that they can lay their eggs in - which they do in each crop of the caprifig.  The caprifigs have female flowers as well as male ones(at least there are male ones in the profichi crop).  Because of the longer length of the style of the common(female) fig, the wasps are unable to lay eggs in that type of female flower.

There are some on line sources for info, I like this one:  http://waynesword.palomar.edu/arbimg10.htm  It does get off track with discussions of other species of figs, but I think I understand the subject after reading thru it

Thanks eboone for the thoughtful reply and information.

Anybody with pictures or experience with a pollinated Celeste?