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