At the ripe figs are always contained the remains of dead wasps Bashny.Net

Figs sweet, helpful, and yes bad chews contain recycled remains of dead wasps. As the wasp got there? And why, if it is known, all still continue to eat it? The strange truth is related to reproduction.
All relationships and fig wasps are reduced to the fact that neither one nor the other, are not good replicators and they just found an unusual way to help each other. Figs - it's actually inside-flower, known as sikonium. But because of its structure, most pollinating insects simply can not get to the pollen. Fortunately, there is one insect, fig wasp, which knows how to get to sikoniumu and pollinate the plant. Unfortunately for Microsoft, this one-way trip.
Wasps need a specific environment in which they grow and feed on the larvae. It just so happens that the inside of figs - perfect for baby wasps. Therefore, the female wasp gets inside through a tiny passage figs. The only problem is that this passage is so narrow that they are on the way to lose your wings and antennas, so then they can not get out. However, this dangerous mission to allow wasps to get to the perfect place to lay their eggs.





Fig wasp



But how figs are pollinated if the wasps can get only one flower and stay there? After the eggs hatch, there will be many male and female wasps. After mating, the males spend their short existence by digging tunnels in figs, while the females have an emergency exit after their full development. When they fly, they remain a little pollen, which they transferred to another flower - and pollinated figs.
It turns out that along with the figs we eat the remains of the female wasps and their male offspring? Not quite: in figs have an enzyme called ficin splitting dead wasps on the protein that becomes part of the mature fruit. In fact, the whole body of a wasp in figs remains. And his crispy part - the seeds, not the remains of the wasps.



Source: facte.ru