Figs are in season and ready to be sliced onto charcuterie boards, mixed into jams, and tossed into fresh salads. But if you're a fan of the fig, you may have heard a rumor that's not so appetizing: ...

Caprifigs, smyrna, and san pedro figs do rely on wasps for pollination. Additionally, Calimyrna figs grown in California aren’t pollinated by wasps. According to the California Figs consortium ...

There are some fig varieties, like the Calimyrna fig that do require a wasp to pollinate it, but those are grown on the West Coast. Fig trees are so easy to grow, that it was actually the first ...