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tokechan
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tokechan
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fig wasp 1 |
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nypd5229
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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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gorgi
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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 |
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tokechan
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@ Dominick : thanks.. |
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zaitun
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[QUOTE=tokechan]@ Dominick : thanks.. |
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tokechan
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@zaitun. i only have doesnt require polinate fig. |
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zaitun
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[QUOTE=tokechan]@zaitun. i only have doesnt require polinate fig. |
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tokechan
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Wa'alaikum salam. |
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