fig wasp and fig fruit

I found this video from "bbc private life of life" very interesting. Very peculiar and unexpected relationship between a plant and insect. I found it a little scary too. Attenborough is a great guy, what he make has heart.
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[@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer]

Props to the camera man for going inside the fig to film us this

[@jesustheres]

ah, 240p the way Attenborough was meant to be watched

[@secondjoint]

I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that I just had a mouthful of baby wasps.

[@IntenceCeption]

yup....yup.....yup....oh god....oh god ...I don't feel so good.....oh god....nope

[@IBeeJammin]

I almost did

[@charlestonboy8439]

How do they get the camera in the fig🤣🤣

[@sanikajain8566]

Fig is a fruit that should not be consumed according to jain scriptures. It is said, in centuries old jain scriptures that it contains organisms which are just the same shape as its seeds. Now I know why and how.

[@kamakazi8243]

sanika jain i have been thinking about the fig being the forbidden fruit...If u wont mind i will tell you a story in Quran.Chapter 95(the fig) God swears by the fig and olive tree.it goes on to say that man was honored and then humiliated(after disregarding Gods instruction and eating from the tree) to the lowest of low except those who repent and do good deeds.They will have a non stopping reward.:::Adam peace be upon him was warned not to eat from a tree(we still dont know which tree) but when he eat from it then it became apparent he has sinned and thus his status was lowered him and his progeny but with repentance he achieved his high status again.This are just my thinkings only and my own intrepretations.All perfect knowledge belongs to God.However the fact that u mentioned that your tradition says that Figs are forbidden coz of hoe the worms of wasps resembles the seeds make me amazed and awed!! We really need to study more and more....knowledge is good😆😆😆...to me ua revelation today has helped me even understand My Quran more Thanks buddy☺

[@stagpie6449]

Farmed figs aren't pollinated via wasps, don't worry! Only wild ones.

[@IBeeJammin]

Nope nope nope no more figs for meeeeeeeee

[@Truth4u77]

Wow, amazing. The fig tree relies on the wasp for pollenation. The wasp only live a few days and relies on the fig for it's life. The male wasp never leaves the fig. Can anyone explain how this could have evolved over millions of years??

[@Lemonz1989]

+Truth4u77 It's called mutualistic evolution. :p

[@earlysda]

@@Lemonz1989 It is not possible to have "mutualistic evolution". Which one supposedly "evolved" to this highly complex interdependency first? Textbooks have not taught you the truth that God made everything in 6 days, and rested the 7th.

[@Lemonz1989]

@@earlysda Bla bla bla... Of course it can - you just don't understand it either because you don't want to or because you weren't taught properly. No one comes "first", it's a process that becomes complex when the conditions allow it to be so over a long period of time. The relationship doesn't start out complex. For example, a flower that reproduces sexually needs to spread its pollen to another plants' flower. There are many ways to do this. Where I'm from, there are almost no pollinators. Plants there have many strategies to compensate for this. Some reproduce sexually and others don't. They reproduce through either self fertilization, producing fertile seeds that are genetically identical to the mother without any fertilization, use wind or rain to spread pollen or use smaller, less mobile insects like thrips. Now, if a more effective pollinator develops in the area, the plants that needs to spread their pollen will end up doing this more effectively and CAN (though no always) develop a dependence on this insect over time, because there are no natural pressures that would select otherwise. This means that if a plant that now gets help from the insect suffers a random mutation that makes their pollen less mobile through wind, rain/water or some other process, won't suffer the negative consequences of this mutation because the insect does most of the work already. If this mutation spreads throughout the plant population, then they are slightly more dependent on the insect, but the plants will be positively selected for mutations that will attract the insect more and more making the insect more dependent on the plant because it doesn't need to go elsewhere for its food. If one of them now goes extinct then there is a risk that the other also will, because they have evolved a mutualistic relationship.

[@earlysda]

@@Lemonz1989 Nothing you write in your support for "mutualistic evolution" is based on scientifically observed things. You do realize by writing "For example, a flower that reproduces sexually needs to spread its pollen to another plants' flower." that you've refuted Evolution, don't you?

[@Lemonz1989]

@@earlysda _"Nothing you write in your support for "mutualistic evolution" is based on scientifically observed things."_ As I said, you don't want to understand. There is plenty of scientific evidence to support this case if you only wanted to look. _"You do realize by writing "For example, a flower that reproduces sexually needs to spread its pollen to another plants' flower." that you've refuted Evolution, don't you?"_ How so?

[@mikiecullen]

I've only eaten 2 figs in my lifetime recently. After seeing this video, I won't be eating anymore figs!!! 😩🤢🤮

[@Mohazz88]

To those saying eew its important you understand humans and animals have been eating figs since the beginning of time so stop your wining.

[@jmikronis7376]

If one wants big figs, these wasps are essential.

[@okamijubei]

And the fig themselves. They are ready to be harvested and can be eaten while the fig wasps had finished their job.

[@annefiftythree]

It explains in very clear terms the metaphor of the holy fig tree, [plakSa प्लक्ष] and it tells about the "telescopic" penis resp. phallus [organ of reproduction] found in Hindu mythology and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

[@AG-le3ee]

never eating a fig again

[@historadeunamor]

Oh regarding co-evolution, to me is more like fig tree comes first and manipulates the insects for her own benefit, the tree lives hundreds of years, and wasp just having few days on earth and all the reason of her life is to pollinate the fig?

[@jasminesmith7528]

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[@georgelouis6515]

How do we know that the wasp do not come from the fig flower?

[@NaniTreas1]

Hey, where's the rest of this video?

[@AntholKinsidiousFoul]

Cool.

[@Nafurious]

Amazing!

[@cassiniburtoni3365]

Yak ...feel sick !

[@HariiBTV]

insects are good protein source :)

[@wadyano]

when i eat a dried gig am i eating died wasps?

[@platedlizard]

I'm eating dried figs right now.

[@terryleblanc6868]

Our figs are self fertile!,,

[@Billqe123]

Ovs the figs you eat are looked after....jeez its not like your eating them bugs right now...;) or maybe you are..ahahahahaaaaaa

[@tiedupsmurf]

But before the Males die, they also make and or create the exit hole for the Females to leave

[@fahd4007]

سبحان الله

[@dace.digital]

not cool nature, just not cool

[@PlusBurdles]

So?

[@boogsc9715]

D:

[@nicv278]

Ewww