Fiddle leaf figs are known to be high maintenance. With the right care and growing environment, you can have a happy, healthy ...

Although figs appear entirely plant based, their life cycle often includes a pollinating wasp that cannot leave the fruit once inside. Modern cultivation produces both pollinated and non pollinated ...

Figs are vegan despite fig wasps aiding in pollination, as enzymes break down the wasps, leaving no trace. Figs provide health benefits such as better digestion, weight control, improved skin health, ...

The life of the fig wasp is nature at its worst—from our human perspective, anyway. In order to lay their eggs, female fig wasps have to squeeze into the flowering body of a fig, losing their wings ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang backup on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died. She was 78. Godchaux died Sunday ...

These variegated, collaged-looking nests — fetching up to $250 each — are a recent fixation in interior design. Indoors, a wasp nest can look like a sculpture that both “elevates living spaces” and ...

Jaco Greeff received funding from the National Research Foundation. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and therefore the NRF ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - In this week’s Restaurant Roundup, it’s the battle of the breakfast spots. One popular donut shop was slammed with over a dozen violations, including the presence of ...

Researchers discovered two new parasitic wasp species living in the U.S., tracing their origins back to Europe and uncovering clues about how they spread. Their arrival raises fresh questions about ...

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 ...

Fresh figs are irresistible from late summer through early fall, when trees droop from the weight of these luscious, caramelly fruits. Nothing stands between fig lovers and this bounty, except … wasps ...