well i don't think we have any particular need for wasps. well of course they pollinate flowers but so do bees. so if wasps happen to become extict, it wouldnt make any difference because bees are already taking care of pollinating flowers.
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Wasps, like bees, have very high-energy needs that must be met for their survival. Wasps need key resources such as pollen and nectar from a variety of flowers. The true wasps have stingers that they use to capture insects or spiders ... Fig wasps enter through a tiny pore to mate, lay eggs, and pollinate the tiny flowers...
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Nature: Although they're less well-known than Honeybees, all sorts of animals pollinate flowers, including beetles, wasps, flies, bats, and birds. ... As small as the smaller solitary bees are some flies that also pollinate, including the quarter-inch ... Another pollinating group that is often forgotten is the wasps, which-
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Ficus species and Chalcoid Agaonid wasps demonstrate obligate mutualism, which has been well documented. Both the wasp and the fig rely on the other for survival; the fig provides habitat for the wasps as galls and the wasps in turn pollinate the fig. ... Female trees produce only figs with female flowers. Each flower has...
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How then do these tiny wasps that only live for a few days manage to perform their amazing task of finding and pollinating flowers that are hidden inside the fig? ... The female wasp then proceeds to pollinate the stigmas and to lay eggs in the ovules of some of the florets. This she does by inserting her long ovipositor...
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The pollen-bearing profichi crop is used to pollinate the Calimyrna figs in June. The overwintering mamme crop house wasps through the cold winter months and are quite visible on the leafless branches. ... The World's Most Delicious Figs Require A Tiny; Symbiotic Wasp To Pollinate Its Minute Flowers...
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After insemination by males, the fertile female wasps pack their pollen baskets (corbiculae) with pollen and exit the syconium. These syconia serve as "wasp condos" for populations of wasps that pollinate the fig flowers in one of nature's most remarkable and complex symbiotic cycles.
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The wasps that pollinate Ficus inflorescences can be active or passive pollinators. They lay their eggs in fig flowers, so that a proportion of flowers will host a wasp larva instead of a seed.
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1995). Female wasps pollinate flowers of both types but successfully oviposit only in gall figs. Carpellate flowers in gall figs nourish pollinator larvae and staminate flowers donate pollen to the emerging female wasps.
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