>Do all figs have wasps in them? >If a female burrows into a female fig, she can't lay her eggs and dies of starvation. However, she does bring pollen into the internal flowers of the fig, pollinating it. ... So yes, there is at least one dead wasp inside the figs that we like to eat.
Wasps are good for you, they're high in protein. Just remember to remove the legs, stinger, and wings so you don't cut your throat
William Collins
Honestly, i don't care, figs are great.
Carter Walker
>figs have wasps I never paid attention to any of the figs i ate and i don't give a fuck to be honest.
Thomas Perez
Cant be right.
Nathan Morgan
>eat fig >see no wasps
What kind of second rate figs am I being sold, Veeky Forums? I hate wasps and want to genocide them. Can I accomplish this by eating 1000 figs a day?
Evan Myers
If you kill all the wasps, figs will die out as well.
Jace Lee
What compels a wasp to burrow in a fig exactly
Jayden Collins
>vegans in denial
Brayden Wilson
Seek help. What the fuck do you think they are vegans?
Christopher Martin
A necessary sacrifice.
Joseph Brown
>female wasp goes into fig >lays eggs >wings get torn off so she can't get out of fig >dies >eggs hatch >hatched males mate with hatched females >digs hole out of fig for females >females fly out >males have no wings >males die
FUCK YEAH NATURE
Connor Russell
fresh figs are fucking delicious It's a shame they're so hard to find, even in season.
Juan Sullivan
>I don't give a fuck when I accidentally eat a wasp >calls me a vegan are you ok in the head?
Carson Russell
evolution
iirc, enzymes within the fig dissolve the wasp and convert it to nutrients. Basically a long slow version of a Venus fly trap.
Brayden Wright
A fig is an inside out flower Or outside in rather
Bentley Roberts
wtf I love figs even more
Nicholas Torres
>dissolve the wasp and convert it to nutrients. Figs are savage af.
>It's a shame they're so hard to find, even in season. I didn't even get any this year. Rare to find them in stores. Fresh taste nothing like the dried ones, though both are delicious. Fresh fig is one of my favorite fruits but you have to perform a dance ritual to pagan gods to find any for purchase. Is there any alcohol that is made from figs?
Christian Barnes
These are non-commercial even ancient figs which would have had such pollination practices
Dylan Gonzalez
the common fig only needs wasps to produce seeds not figs. If you've ever eaten figs you've eaten them without seeds. fucking random ass wasps don't live everywhere figs have been transported.
Jaxon Wood
The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
Then you throw away the skin Which is just like a four-sepalled calyx, After you have taken off the blossom, with your lips.
But the vulgar way Is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out the flesh in one bite.
Every fruit has its secret.
The fig is a very secretive fruit. As you see it standing growing, you feel at once it is symbolic : And it seems male. But when you come to know it better, you agree with the Romans, it is female.
The Italians vulgarly say, it stands for the female part ; the fig-fruit : The fissure, the yoni, The wonderful moist conductivity towards the centre.
Involved, Inturned, The flowering all inward and womb-fibrilled ; And but one orifice.
The fig, the horse-shoe, the squash-blossom. Symbols.
There was a flower that flowered inward, womb-ward ; Now there is a fruit like a ripe womb.
It was always a secret. That’s how it should be, the female should always be secret.
Charles Clark
My grandmother had a fig tree in the front lawn of her house. I can remember how much I loved those fresh figs. Plus she used to make jelly out of them and can it. Was incredible on toast
Ryder Lewis
>all that text just wash the fig and eat it whole you fucking pussy.
Dylan Smith
It's a poem you illiterate scum.
Dylan Watson
>savage af.
Jordan Rodriguez
>wash the fig Get a load of this sissy
Owen Scott
My grandpa had a fig tree and it was loaded with seeds
Eli Rivera
the the female wasp undergoes a life cycle in then fruit itself?
Easton Evans
>wasp forcefully penetrates fruit and rots inside >male enters to reproduce also dying inside >their wings are ripped off so they die never knowing freedom again >we eat the fruit Brutal.
Alexander Reed
Actually the males fuck their sisters before they hatch. A male never really leaves the fig. The closest he gets is burrowing to the outside to allow the females out before he dies. This doesn’t make much sense to me tho, since it would mean fig wasps are all inbred and wouldn’t allow for much genetic diversity, unless two females made their way into the same fig and both laid eggs in there.
Julian Flores
>Is there any alcohol that is made from figs? Sure. There is alcohol that is made from basically everything.
Samuel Carter
I'm no geneticist, but a lot of species can get away with severe inbreeding for many generations. Most species don't file taxes though.
Even with humans, a single incidence of first-cousin incest isn't likely to result in any sort of abnormality, or so they say. And our gene-structure has been fucked to hell and back due to severe near-apocalyptic events in the past.
Daniel Morgan
Yes but this is a species who seems to always have brothers mating with their sisters. Then again I guess ants kind of do the same thing, and ants are defendants from wasps. I’m sure evolution figured something out for them.
Blake Nelson
Some figs are self pollinating and do not need wasps, but the best varieties definitely have dead wasps inside.
Incestuous, underage, snuff orgy? Man, I love how nature always manages to find new ways to give me a boner.
Chase Gomez
>he doesn't wash his figs enjoy eating Monsanto's pesticides and your inevitable infertility
Elijah Collins
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Cameron Ross
Yeah but that's because the cheetah population bottlenecked really fucking hard at one point fairly recently so the current genepool is all drawn from just a handful of animals.
Juan Morales
This is not okay
Jayden Bailey
>hard to find, even in season Where?
Angel Mitchell
IDGAF about dead wasps what really don't like are alive ones
Jace Walker
>ew wasps are gross to eat >man I sure love shrimp, I'll just eat the hole thing, legs and all
Nolan Rodriguez
>I don’t like dogs or wasps.
Double win for me I guess?
Cameron Powell
So every single fig gets pollinated? You'd think if one fig on the plant gets pollinated the whole tree does as well.
Robert Stewart
An outside in is the same as an inside out
Evan Davis
No you wouldn't
Caleb Baker
If I have wasp dreams tonight I will find you and I will be your personal wasp
Noah Russell
Please learn basic biology
Joshua Gomez
FOR WHAT PURPOSE!?
Ayden Lewis
I have a fig tree. The answer is some do and some don’t.
Robert Green
Parthenocarpic figs with a closed eye will never have wasps in them. Not only can the wasps not enter the closed eye fig, but parthenocarpic fig varieties are the only figs that can be grown in regions lacking the pollinator (wasp). Ants will still be able to locate the eye, manually open it, and feed on the insides - so parthenocarpic figs may sometimes contain ants.
Used to grow commercially
Jayden Hall
You seem knowledgable. What varieties of figs should i look to acquire? Im in Mediterranean type climate.
Hunter Garcia
You seem to know a lot about figging user.
Brandon Ramirez
Didn't you get the memo? We are normies now
Nathan Martin
I live in WA and there is always an abundance of figs during summertime at every local grocer
Ian Butler
you think that it is the males that orivude most genetic diversity?
Lucas Sanchez
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David Martinez
If you're buying figs from the market, you have nothing to be concerned about, there won't be any wasps.
Wyatt Turner
But we do it ironically, of course.
Samuel Morris
>fresh fig with some chevre and lemon zest please
Justin Bailey
Come on
Levi Ortiz
Based Lawrence
Aiden Ward
No, they wouldn't. Let me put it this way; if a woman was fertilised, does that mean her sisters are pregnant too?
Levi Brown
I have 2 fig trees and I never even see wasps near it
David Stewart
Usually a tree has flowers that get pollinated and once they are the fruits produce seeds. Are there other trees that get every fruit pollinated individually?
Nicholas Powell
I dont care about super market figs. I want to grow top tier varieties. In my current home i grow no less than 50 different fruit varieties.
This year i am trying to expand into figs, mulberries, blueberries, raspberries, and grapes.
Cooper Campbell
snarky Veeky Forums is my favourite
Daniel Brooks
What do fresh figs taste like, Veeky Forums? I’ve only ever had fig newtons
Oliver Perez
can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet, but even if your fig contains a wasp, the wasps that pollenate figs are around 1.5 mm long. you woul barely even be able to see it with your naked eye
Colton Cook
being snarky doesn't make them wrong but you being dumb does
William Johnson
They don't just grow figs out in the open to get pollinated do they? I thought this only applies to wild figs. Figs are expensive man.
Grayson Ross
>does that mean her sisters are pregnant too? Yes Sincerely, Mike Pence
Jeremiah Evans
They taste like fig newtons
Easton Perry
I'm not sure but I don't think those wasps survive in colder climates. I've never noticed any wasps in or near my Fig trees.
Bentley Morgan
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Cameron Scott
Where are you, mate? I harvested 20+ liters (5 gal) from one tree last season. Turkey figs. Want a couple of cuttings?
Tyler Flores
Fig brandy. Flavor is really strong though.
Christian Gonzalez
It has something to do with mating IIRC.
Landon Hughes
AaaaaaaaAaaaAaaaaaaaaaAaAAaaaaaaaaaa!! FUCK OFF.
Cooper Hall
nice but as mentioned already, I eat figs whole and people sometimes look at me funny for that, can you imagine >fuckin pesticides which is understandable and maybe true even >but I'll defeat those if I wash the fig this though isn't
Jack Hall
>this though isn't are you that soccer mom who has to wash her fruits with soap before eating them?