This also implies that the fig wasp population is much more active and larger in the spring.

Rarely, the female is winged but the male not, as in fig wasps.

And the only agents that can do the pollinating are fig wasps.

But why shouldn't any one fig wasp cheat and leave a few more eggs than her rivals?

Fig wasps are not known to transmit any diseases harmful to humans.

All the fig wasps will be nuked, and my husband and his book.

Fig trees and fig wasps share an intimate cooperative relationship.

It is no accident that the curious natural history of fig wasps played an important part in that work as well.

Pegoscapus is a genus of fig wasp native to the Americas.

The interaction between figs and fig wasps is especially well-known (see section on reproduction, above).

Though the lives of individual species differ, a pollinating fig wasp life cycle is as follows.

These fig wasps are from different families.

Gravid female fig wasps enter figs, lay eggs and die.

Fig wasps genera and classification according to the various publications:

The family Agaonidae is a group of pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps.

The Afrotropical fig wasp fauna is however poorly known.

Once they have mated, male and female fig wasps have different fates.

Yet sharks, fig wasps, and villagers all cooperate.

Fig wasps grow in caprifigs but not in the female syconiums.

Fig wasps lay fertilized eggs within figs, and no females disperse.

For part of their life cycle, nematodes consume the body of the adult female fig wasp.

The origin of mutualism is also the beginning of the fig wasp phylogeny.

Fig endosepsis is not transmitted transovarily by the fig wasp.

Pleistodontes deuterus is a species of fig wasp which is native to Australia.

The two populations are pollinated by different fig wasps, and are morphologically distinct.