The Truth About Wasps Inside a Fig Syconium | Fig Wasp Life Cycle
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Have you ever heard of fig wasps? There’s a rumor that there might be dead wasps inside the figs we eat! Is that true? Can you come across any insects while eating figs? In this video, we will look into the life cycle of a fig wasp (family Agaonidae) to understand why wasps are attracted to a fig (syconium) in the first place and how their life cycle is connected with that of the fig in a textbook example of a mutualism.
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I heard about fig wasps recently but you explained the whole story about their life cycle and how it fits with the fig cycle. Now I understand it. I still plan to eat the commercial figs.
This video was so informative thank you! Im so mind blown by the way nature and insects can be so hyper dependent on each other.
Excellent! This is a far more indepth and concise analysis of the pollination process and Fig wasp life cycle. Thank you!!
One of the best educational videos with the least amount of views I've ever seen. I had already known about and researched this topic in the past but this presentation was still the most thorough one to date.
Thank you so much! ❤
Excellent presentation. Thank you very much for simplifying a very complex pollination process.
Yes i will still grow and eat my own figs cos now i appreciate them all the more so thanks for this info!
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One of the best explanations I have ever heard about figs pollination! Thank you!
Greatest Information.
Great video Thank you. as far as eating figs I will choose the ones that are commercially grown to pollinate themselves, Can't get past the wasp inside. Thanks again.
great video and visuals again! your work is inspiring :)
Thank you so much! ❤
Thank you for the beautiful explanation. I already knew about the reproduction of figs, but I came here to address my question: can we actually find the wasps when we eat a fig? I’ve always been told the answer was no.
l have a fig tree (Ficus Carica) in my garden and every year we collect the fruits to eat. I came back after a month abroad, and my father told me he had already harvested them: there was a giant bowl of fruits in the fridge. I split one open with my hands, and found the dead female wasp inside, wingless and antennaeless. I tossed it into the trash.
I opened another one, and I couldn’t find the female, but I could clearly see one or two larvae having a great time enjoying their buffet.
Long story short, almost all of the harvested figs, either contained the female, at times already dead, at times about to die, or they contained the larvae.
I couldn’t eat them.
What was the cause of this? Did my father collect the fruits too early? Weren’t they ripe when he collected them? Had they been ripe, the females would have dissolved and the larvae inside would have already erupted from the syconium, right?
Thank you in advance
Good content on ficus hidden story revealed. Thanks nature clearly. Good work.
Thank you! 🤗
Very well explained.All of your videos are very informative and visually appealing too.Looking forward to know more about plants through your videos.
I have query “Is money plant” an angiosperm,I have never seen it flowering,pls explain.Thanks.
Thank you! I'm glad you're learning some new things about plants through my videos!
The common name "money plant" is unfortunately used for many different species of plants, so I'm not sure which one you have. However, all of them are angisoperms. Often times, plants that we grow in our houses behave differently than when they grow in their native habitat. Not having the ideal conditions can cause them to not bloom, grow shorter, etc.
I have epipremnum aureum
thank you now I can relate to it
This is a fantastic informative video. It just goes to illustrate, you can learn new things, if you are receptive. Thank you for your excellent work.
king gizzard wrote a song about it :)
Big Fig Wasp! :)
This video is amazing! Thank you so much for all the work you guys did!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) Thank you for watching!
Great presentation
Great video, thank you
Oh I'd never stop eating figs, btw XD
❤Thank you so much for this exellent video 🎉
Of course I'll keep eating the smyrna figs. I don't care abt. some rest of molecules of a wasp, which was there inside a fig some mounth before I eat it😂
Wonderful video !! Which microscope do you use ?
Thinking to find specie of fig not hermaphrodite
yum protein
LOL, I'm from Mexico, and it doesn't matter if it has insects. We eat some insects
I like that approach! 🤭
I have never eaten fig😂
And thanks God i have never do so 😂
What's wrong with a protein packed fruit? 🤭
Oh, but they're good. My grandmother grew figs and made fig preserves.
Pretty interesting, thank you . I used to hate pharmacognosy course especially plant morphology related parts yet I didn't expect to be overwhelmed by any relevant topic 🤍🤍🤍
why so little views