If you've ever bitten into a fresh fig, you've tasted the delicious result of one of nature's most extraordinary and longstanding partnerships. But the figs in your local grocery store only tell a ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

Nils Bernstein is a food, drink, and travel editor and writer based in Mexico City. He is the food editor for Wine Enthusiast and has written for such publications as Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Food & ...

The fig wasp pollination mutualism is a quintessential example of an obligate ecological interaction, wherein minute pollinator wasps and their Ficus hosts engage in an intricate and enduring ...

An example of "fallen fig fauna": a beetle larvae which feeds on the fig from the inside, then migrate to the soil when the ripe fruit falls to the ground. Credit: Luciano Palmieri An example of ...

University of Maryland Biology Professor Carlos Machado studies the extraordinary partnership between figs and their tiny pollinators—and what happens when some evolutionary partners turn into ...