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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago

Question: if I buy figs commercially, will they contain dead wasps? Or, is this something that only happens naturally?

[-] BurningTurtle@feddit.org 17 points 4 months ago

By the time the fig gets to you, the wasp would long have been digested/dissolved by the plant.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 18 points 4 months ago

Seriously, can not overstate how weird figs are.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

All I know is my dog got really, really fat after we bought the house with the fig tree

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

As far as I know it isn't actually something that happens with the figs we eat. I think it is a specific type of fig and a specific wasp that does this.

Also, the wasp in question is absolutely tiny.

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