Yesterday I noticed while looking at some of my figs in the Greenhouse these wasps. They look very much like the fig wasps.
I did get a Capri last year that had some wasps early in the season and didn't really pollinate anything because it was too early for me.
I'm wondering if they really overwintered or this is something else. I took a close up shot with my phone. Not a great picture. The wings look like the blastophaga wasp.
I don't have any Capri figs forming now. So they really not pollinating anything.

How cold did your greenhouse get over the winter. How many different capris do you have. Do you have one that produces figs all year. Or do you have three different ones that produce begining middle and end of season. To transfer the wasp.
Thanks cian

I don't have any Capri figs over winter. But did have a couple unripe figs on some plants.

Hey bass I do not think these are fig wasps because I see them on my figs, but only one had viable seeds this year (2015).

[QUOTE=Speedmaster]Hey bass I do not think these are fig wasps because I see them on my figs, but only one had viable seeds this year (2015).[/QUOTE]
how do you know if figs have viable seeds??

[QUOTE=Greenguy]How cold did your greenhouse get over the winter. How many different capris do you have. Do you have one that produces figs all year. Or do you have three different ones that produce begining middle and end of season. To transfer the wasp.
Thanks cian[/QUOTE]

Cian. I have all three capri's rooted. if they all make it. When would i introduce the wasp?

Bass, They do not look like my wild wasps, a different shape, unless you managed to breed a different Arctic variety !

I really didn't sit and compare these wasps to the ones I had last year. They could be something else. But wings look similar.
@greenfig I will let God breed a new arctic wasp, I'm not that good.

So you are saying if they are wasps they overwintered in a common fig. Not a mamme Capri. Also how cold did you let your greenhouse get

They look like ant drones to me. Their wings are proportionally larger than fig wasps.

[QUOTE=figpig_66][QUOTE=Speedmaster]Hey bass I do not think these are fig wasps because I see them on my figs, but only one had viable seeds this year (2015).[/QUOTE]
how do you know if figs have viable seeds??[/QUOTE]
they are darker seeds and are larger and have a white nut inside them and they sprout readily.
Edit: and they sink when you put them in a glass of water.
check this: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/my-first-pollinated-syrian-saydawi-fig-7043868

That insect seems too big for a fig wasp which is smaller and with  a slimmer silhouette.. wings too long.
It looks  like winged termites .

Francisco

[QUOTE=Speedmaster][QUOTE=figpig_66][QUOTE=Speedmaster]Hey bass I do not think these are fig wasps because I see them on my figs, but only one had viable seeds this year (2015).[/QUOTE]
how do you know if figs have viable seeds??[/QUOTE]
they are darker seeds and are larger and have a white nut inside them and they sprout readily.
Edit: and they sink when you put them in a glass of water.
check this: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/my-first-pollinated-syrian-saydawi-fig-7043868[/QUOTE]
Thank you speed.

Thanks Francisco and all.

I have seen a fig wasp, but by the time I got my phone it was gone somewhere. It was on a fallen fig on the ground. It had a tail or something.

I wish there was a way to introduce them to a temperature controlled greenhouse. I know bees die in a greenhouse, it would be cool if fig wasps did not.

Bees only die in a greenhouse if they have no hive or no food source, excluding the pesticides and fungicides that harm them.  They usually live for about 12 weeks if you talk about bumble bees, I use them for years and put new hives every week to maintain pollination, The ones I put in die from old age or from venturing outside and not making it back when there is frost.

 

These are fig wasps from Wayne's word.

Hi lampo,

Termites have no waists on them and this one looks like it has a waist.  I can't see the photo clearly  I hope, anyway.  Who needs termites???

noss

noss,

I did not look into that anatomical detail- Google will provide a lot of information on those differences
I am no entomologist but dealing with the FCarica wasps for a long time, saw the GH insect could never be a Blastophaga
It was far bigger than the fig wasp and with different contours probably 4 times bigger, wasp wings are transparent, much smaller and usually the insect keeps them upright when walking.

The mentioning of termites came from memories of my childhood searching the fields looking for them as well as big winged ants to feed my chameleons and bait the occasional larks and thrushes

Francisco
Portugal