A professional gardener is warning Aussies to know the signs of an invasive pest that could mean the end of their most ...

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

A visit to the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art will expose the viewer to not only some amazing artwork in the current ...

A newly published study in the Journal of Neurophysiology reveals how blow flies (Calliphora vicina)—despite their minimal ...

It is true that many trees that produce figs would go extinct without wasps, which are key pollinators that lay their eggs in ...

One recent study described 186 new wasp species in one small corner of Costa Rican ... The relationship between figs and fig wasps is arguably the most interdependent pollination symbiosis known ...

“Female fig wasps enter the fig through a tiny opening, the ostiole, carrying pollen from their previous fig. Inside, they pollinate the flowers and lay eggs in some of them. The fig provides a ...

a female wasp enters a fig through a tiny opening, losing her wings in the process. As she is unable to get out, she lays her eggs inside the flower and dies. When the eggs hatch, the male wasps ...

What Makes Fig 'Non-Veg'? Figs are a delicious fruit of the Ficus carica plant, but they aren’t strictly vegetarian. They have a surprising connection to insects. There are roughly 900 unique species ...

They’re the seeds from each tiny flower. But where does the wasp come in? Flowers need pollination to produce the next generation of fig trees. That’s where the wasps come in. They carry ...

Figs and wasps share a unique mutualistic relationship, where wasps pollinate figs while laying their eggs inside the fruit. Ficin, an enzyme in figs, breaks down wasp bodies if they die inside ...