Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Figs, Ctd

Christina Agapakis updates her fascinating post by linking to another by Christie Wilcox. In it, Wilcox explains how some fig species fight back against freeloading wasps that try to use the plant without pollinating it:

Firstoff, the figs carrying cheater offspring were aborted more frequently.When a fig aborts a larvae-containing fruit, it kills all of the larvaeinside. One active species only kept around 3% of the number of figsthat the passive pollinated species did. But to punish them...