Why aren’t figs considered vegan?
In order to pollinate the flowers, a female wasp that has gathered pollen from another fig (the one she was hatched in, and in which she mated with her brothers before they carved an escape hatch for her (but alas, not for themselves) must crawl through a tiny hole to enter the inflorescence, shedding her wings and her antennae (occasionally) as she does so. I’ve often thought the Saga of the Fig and the Wasp would make a marvelous opera, or perhaps a ballet, with its chorus of tragic males spending their entire lives confined within a single fig, while their sisters escape, laden with pollen and possibilities. It gets even more interesting when you find out that in some species of fig, if the female wasps don’t carry pollen to new inflorescences, the tree will drop its fruit, punishing them by eliminating their offspring from the gene pool.
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