Females oviposit directly into the ostiole (eye) of unripe fig fruits. Larvae Larvae emerge from these eggs and feed internally on the syconia (fruit) tissue. The larvae have an 11 segmented body ...

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and the larvae grow, mate, and eventually crawl out. So, for every fig you eat, it's likely that a wasp gave its life to make that fruit possible. But don't worry â by the time you take a ...

The wasp enters the fig to lay its eggs, and it takes pollen from the fig as it leaves. In this way, pollen spreads from one fig to another, leading to pollination. The wasp lays its eggs inside the ...

Codling moth damages quince fruit directly by boring into fruit. Larvae either “sting” fruit, boring only a short distance into the flesh, or bore into the core of a fruit and consume the seed ...

Fig. 1. Adult (top), larva (middle) and pupae (bottom) of soybean tentiform leafminer. Note the circled adult on quarter for size reference Photos: J. Moisan-De Serres, MAPAQ Québec; Robert Koch, UMN ...