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Blastophaga psenes

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692:, or fig endosepsis. The wasps carry this disease on their wings and body. Because the fungus grows on the ostiole, the fungus is transmitted to the wasps' bodies when the wasp emerges from the syconium through the ostiole. Fig endosepsis is not transmitted transovarily by the fig wasp. The wasps become contaminated with spores of the fungus as they contact plant surfaces upon emergence. Studies show that wasps on upper surfaces of the leaves were infected with this fungus in higher levels than other wasps. Wasps who were higher up in the tree or further out on a branch also showed more fungus on their wings and bodies. This led to the conclusion that contamination increases as the wasps walk on leaves, petioles, and fruits before they reach the opening to the syconium. This fungus affects both males and females. The fungus shows to be more evident in spring caprifigs that are pollinated with 5 to 10 winter caprifigs than when spring caprifigs are pollinated with only one winter caprifig. Also, the incidences of this fungus are higher when there is a high population of wasps with limited figs. The more wasps that pass through one ostiole, the more likely the wasp will contract 455:—where the actual attractive substances come from). If a wasp detects the signal, it will lower its antennae and search for the entrance to the fig. By using its sense of smell and taste, the wasp can trace the actual entrance into a fig once the desired fig has been located. But if the wasp does not detect a signal, it will not enter the fig. Instead, it will move on and search for another receptive fig. Fig wasps have a short lifespan, and selection favored them by immediate attraction towards receptive plants, easily distinguishable from a few meters. Due to the difference between male and female trees, male tree figs are more attractive than female tree figs as a result of selection. 301:, approximately only 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in length. The females are black wasps and seem shiny, while the males are smaller than the females. The males are wingless, whereas females have wings that are transparent and very thin. When the female wasps enter the opening of a fig, their wings and antennae detach. Upon dissecting a fig, the wings of the wasps can be seen at the opening of the fig. Additionally, adult wasps, larvae, and eggs are found within the fig. The wasps are free-living and their lifespan spans from a few days to weeks. 528:
trees, so they use that relationship to prey on wasps. This concept is called associative learning of odor because the ants are indirectly finding these wasps by associating the smell of the fig with the wasps. However, some ants do not respond to the odor of figs for different reasons. For instance, the fig could be a non-pollinator and therefore not release any chemical substance. In the case where the ants cannot detect odors, the wasps will not be predated upon.
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much more active and larger in the springtime. The spring and winter caprifigs have a life cycle related to each other as to maximize resources and output of figs and wasps. Winter, or delayed, caprifigs are usually observed to occur on male trees. Spring, or undelayed, caprifigs usually occur on female trees. Because female trees are lethal, wasps prefer these delayed caprifigs of male trees.
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Males emerge first from their cocoon and begin looking for females to mate with. Sometimes mating occurs before the female has finished emerging from its cocoon. Then, males start enlarging the fig's opening. Some fall from the fig to the ground. They have no wings and die shortly after. The enlarged
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Female flowers on female trees have long styles. Therefore, wasps cannot parasitize these ovaries because their ovipositors are too short to reach the bottom of the syconium. Because wasp eggs cannot be laid in these female flowers, all female flowers on female trees produce seeds instead of larvae.
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There is also a difference in winter and spring caprifigs (male figs) and their availability to receive eggs and become pollinated. Spring caprifigs usually produce more wasps than winter caprifigs because of better and more resources available for them. This implies that the fig wasp population is
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stimuli drive the wasp to a fig that is available to receive wasp eggs. This olfactory stimulus is specific for the wasps' host fig (in this case, F. carica) and enables the wasps to distinguish between their host and other fig species. Figs in their receptive phase emit a compound called pentane
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One of the main predators of these wasps is ants. Ants find these wasps using chemical signals such as odor cues. The ants use the fig-fig wasp mutualism to find the fig wasps by detecting an odor that comes from the figs of the male trees. They know that most fig wasps are located on male fig
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These nematodes then invade, feed, and reproduce inside the floret tissues. Larvae finish development with nematode still inside the hemocoel. After fertilization, females emerge from a syconium with nematodes still in hemocoel along with pollen flakes along her body. Because this nematode is
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wasp that has retrieved pollen from another syconium. Female wasps oviposit in the syconium for hatching. When these larvae emerge as adults, they carry the pollen accumulated in the syconium out of the fig to another nearby syconium. Thus, when wasps lay their eggs, they are also actually
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from a deposited egg destroys a female flower when it feeds on its growing seed. When wasps emerge from the syconium, they rush to the nearest syconia. This rush creates a large number of wasps all competing to enter an adjacent syconium. Due to this rush,
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will become less effective as more pollen falls off of the wasp bodies. Offspring number depends on number of pollinator wasps per syconium. The number of offspring is low when the entry number of wasps in a syconium is high. On average, each wasp has 3
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at least 5 meters away. Upon sensing these signals from a specific syconium, the wasp will approach that fig. Before entering, the wasps will assess the fig by holding up their heads and antennae next to the opening of the syconium (the
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This feature of female flowers on female trees is the explanation why it is nearly impossible for wasps to emerge from a female fig tree. Fig wasps cannot perform oviposition in there and they can be dangerously stuck in that syconium.
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Once fig wasps emerge from the syconium, they have to figure out the fig in which they want to deposit their eggs. They need to make sure that the fig they find is available and acceptable for breeding. In the case of B. psenes,
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opening enables the females to leave the syconium in search of a new one where to oviposit. Mating occurs within the syconium and laying eggs occurs in a syconium different than the one where mating occurred.
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occurs between fig and fig wasps, which creates a need for specific species of figs to be pollinated by specific species of wasps. The origin of mutualism is also the beginning of the fig wasp
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a year; one for each of the different seasonal caprifigs. Also, reproductive success depends heavily on transmission of strong signals by plant.
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Each species of fig is pollinated by a specific species of fig wasp. This kind of interaction between these two different organism is known as
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only live for a few days or weeks, and at maximum, much less than a month. These wasps lay fertilized eggs in female flowers of the
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in each flower's style. This can lead to some flowers not being pollinated because some styles are too long. Each
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to breed, it is found in regions where this fig species grows. The wasp is native to the Palaearctic, including
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The wasps breed inside the fig. Later, the female lays its eggs in the ovaries of another fig by sticking its
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Schatz, Bertrand; Martine Hossaert-Mckey (2010). "Ants Use Odour Cues to Exploit Fig–fig Wasp Interactions".
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pollinating that syconium. A major difference between male and female fig trees can also be observed.
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so it usually dies when cleptoparasitized. While the nematodes as parasites are not lethal to
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tissue. The mother produces this hyperplastic tissue when she lays the eggs in the syconium.
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primarily found in the hemocoel of a female wasp, males are not associated with nematodes.
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oviposit at the outside of the florets. This layering of ovipositing causes the larvae of
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Machado, C. A.; E. Jousselin; F. Kjellberg; S. G. Compton; E. A. Herre (2001).
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wasp oviposits her egg inside the syconium, nematodes are also deposited.
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Populations, Availability of Caprifigs, and Fig Endosepsis Cause by
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all the food source instead of sharing the food like the nematodes.
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to do the work and acquire food with little or no cost to itself.
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Vovlas, Nicola; Alessandra Larizza (1996). "Relationships of
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into a new syconium. From there, the short life cycle of a
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these cleptoparasites are lethal because they are taking
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Hossaert-Mckey, M.; M. Gibernau; J. E. Frey (1994).
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has a mutualistic relationship with the fig species
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Agaonidae
Blastophaga
Binomial name
Linnaeus
1758
Synonyms
Gravenhorst

Blastophaga
pollinates
Ficus carica
Ficus palmata
nest
olfactory senses.
Mutualism
phylogeny
Blastophaga
Wiebesia
Ficus
wasps
Southern Europe
Mediterranean Basin

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