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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 ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

Some creatures — like maggots — love to feed on decaying fruit. New research shows that they associate the texture of food with how tasty it is, too. So how did researchers figure that out?