Figs Without Wasps? 🌿 Fig Questions and Answers
Back at it with figs and their pollinators!
Answering all of your big brained questions!
How do male fruits accept pollen?
Do ants eat the fig pollinators?
Are fig pollinators introduced?
Are there figs without wasps?!
All this and more!
Table of contents
0:00 Intro
1:09 Introduced Wasps
3:05 Obligate Pollinators
4:15 Many wasps inside a fig?
6:43 Figs without wasps?
11:36 Hermaphroditic Figs
14:41 Ants eat pollinators
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General info about fig wasps:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
General info about figs:
http://www.figweb.org/Interaction/ind...
The functional implications of active and passive pollination in dioecious figs:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
Chemosensory attraction of fig wasps to substances produced by receptive figs:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Sex Differences and Flowering Phenology in the Common Fig, Ficus carica L. sci-hub.se/10.2307/2407790
When Figs Wait for Pollinators: The Length of Fig Receptivity:
https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/2446228
Complex Interactions Between Mutualisms: Ants Tending Homopterans Protect Fig Seeds and Pollinators
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
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