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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Fig Wasp

Blastophaga psenes

About

A tiny wasp essential for pollinating common figs through an ancient mutualism. Females enter figs through a narrow opening, losing their wings in the process.

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Did You Know?

Every fig species has its own dedicated fig wasp species in a co-evolutionary relationship spanning 80 million years.