Here's how it works: A female wasp crawls into a small opening in the fig, pollinates the flowers inside and lays eggs. The ...

A female wasp enters the fig, losing her wings and antennae as she squeezes through the ostiole. Once inside, she lays eggs among the flowers, pollinating female flowers in the process ...

This fig wasp proves that plants of the fig genus existed ... Instead, the beetle lays its eggs on or near flowers. When its larvae hatch, they wait for a wasp to alight on the flower to imbibe ...