Colin PurringtonFig season has arrived for the gray catbirds. #figs #ficus #syconium #fruit #birds #catbird #gardening #garden
In case you missed it, and because it's fig season here in Pennsylvania, here's my post on wasps inside dried figs from Turkey. #figs #ficus #wasps #fruit #pollination #syconium #tmi #insects #entomology #TraderJoes https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/
Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe's » Colin Purrington's blog
During an online wasp identification course I participated in several weeks ago, there was a fun discussion about whether commercially-produced figs contained fig wasps (Agaonidae, in the Chalcidoidea). Opinions varied, plus some asserted, as do many internet pages, that even if wasps were once inside the figs that ficain (an enzyme) would completely dissolve their […]
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Yesterday's fig haul. Or at least part of it. Had to come in for another container. #figageddon #figs #ficus #fruit #syconium #moraceae #infructescence
