If you look at the detail in the ghosty wasp, it’s clear that it’s just an edited image of a wasp pasted onto a fig
Comment on spoopy figs
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
FYI they are very fucking small nowhere near as big as in this image. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp
Prontomomo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Jestzer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I wonder where they got that image from…
The first result for a fig wasp in a search engine? Nah, that’d be too obvious!
ignotum@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
nowhere as big as in this image
Yeah when they’re alive, but everyone knows you grow larger when you become a ghost
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I went and looked that up on my own and I could’ve just clicked into the comments?!
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
When i came to the post there were no comments to quell my worries so i had to check and share what i found :D
snooggums@piefed.world 7 hours ago
10/10 would read again!
definitely_AI@feddit.online 8 hours ago
Nature is so fucking WEEEEIRD
denaggels@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Actually it’s not. This is 100% human fault. Fig trees and fig wasps from the same (natural) area do not have this problem. When (I believe California?) imported a ton of trees and wasps to cultivate giant fig farms, they just didn’t care that the wasps they got would die during pollination. It was a known issue, that just got ignored. Completely preventable.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 4 hours ago
Nature is not weird? What that person described is not weird? It’s weird. You cannot convince me nature is not weird. Because nature is so fucking WEEEEEEIRDDDD
denaggels@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Fair
TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing 3 hours ago
What problem do you mean?
The blastophaga psenes wasps in Turkey die during pollination just like the blastophaga psenes wasps in California do.
Here is more information about how figs (and fig wasps) came to be cultivated in the US.