How do figs depend on tiny wasps to exist?
Fig & Wasp Forever
How do figs depend on tiny wasps to exist?
Here's a wild fact: every fig you've ever eaten exists because of a tiny wasp smaller than a grain of rice. No wasp, no fig. No fig, no wasp. They've been locked in this impossible partnership for 80 million years, and neither can survive without the other.
A fig isn't actually a fruit — it's an inside-out flower. Imagine a vase packed with hundreds of tiny flowers, then flip it inside-out and seal the top almost shut. That's a fig. All those flowers are trapped inside, waiting to be pollinated through a hole the width of a pinhead.
