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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Seriously, can not overstate how weird figs are.

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