Fig fruits and wasps?

If I pick a fig fruit off of a wild tree...say along the road someplace...then are there wasp eggs/dead male wasps in the fruit???? I have heard that the figs that they sell in grocery stores do not contain the wasps...but I was wondering if there are wasps in the wild kind....


Is pollination required for the fig "fruit" to form or not?

Fig fruits and wasps?
The male usually helps the female chew out of the fig but being flightless remains with the fig.


The fruit is partially grown when the wasp brings the pollen to fertilize it. The reason is only the right fig wasp will fit into the fig opening. Once the eggs are laid %26amp; the fig is fertilized they develop together. The figs will complete ripening after the female wasps have left.


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Reply:The fig bee (Blastophaga psenes, in Latin) is neccessary to fruit set for fig. There is an exception: parthenocarpic fruit (It does not need pollination to fruit set).