Are There Dead Wasps In Figs? | Gross Science
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- Figs aren't exactly fruits...but that's not the only bizarre thing about them. Discover the gross world of figs!
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Great 1977 paper by J. Galil on Fig Biology: bit.ly/2bxzKwa
More on the type of pollination that happens in common figs: bit.ly/2bxBaqc
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Wasp: May i enter?
Fig: Whats the Password:
Wasp: Figure
Fig: You may enter trough the hole, close the door behind you.
rgerber I like you.
Wasp: May i enter?
Fig: Whats the password:
Wasp: Figgot
Fig: Come on in
Fig: You'll die though
Wasp: Knock knock
Fig: What do you want
Wasp: I claim this as my babies house
Fig: Fine, okay. Just when you come in leave your wings and antennae outside.
yes
vegans are shaking.
😂😂 nice joke
LMFAO
Becca Nicole lol
and vegetarians (me)
💀💀
*Eats figs whilst watching this.*
*Continues to eat figs.*
Same. LMAO
Ominous Helljumper same
Bomfunk777 same
Braver than me. Never tried a fig now I'm never gonna...
Crickets are tasty.
4:36 she 100% faked biting into that fig 😂
Leanna Thomson ikr
Lol you can see that the half is missing where she bit at the end
Blossom Thebunny you can also see the video edited
Lil
lol
There are dead cows in my burger
There is dead chickens in my cakes
Atomix Unfertilized chickens*
Quintinity he or she said it right
super duper
they said
Unfertillized chickens*
not chickens*
There's dead chickens in my nuggets
It is now my life goal to inform people of this immediately as they bite into a fig.
Wait until theyve eaten a few, lol.
EVEN BETTER. Thank you for you assistance in my quest, my dude.
+Syria Sirlay To make it even better, sound like Sheldon Cooper telling a fact to someone and sound excited while saying it.
Sheldon Cooper: " Did *you know* that you are most likely eating the incestuous offspring of a wasp, hidden deep inside that fruit of yours? Bazinga, I don't care."
Dakarn 😂
humans: wasps are useless they don't pollinate
wasps: hold my agressive demeanor
Imagine picking a fig and being like 'Oh look a fig' and then a billions wasps burst out and youre like 'Oh look a wasp'
*bites into a fig anyways* mmm crunchy
Hahhahaha lmao you need to make a movie about that
Oh look *_a n a p h a y l a c t i c s h o c k._*
@@Candyman9721 and also ew.
@@leothebudgie676 💀
Wasp sees a fig:
It's free real estate
Daniel Clares 😂😂😂
Daniel Clares hahaha
Wait i just saw u on another video lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LOOOOOOOL
now you gotta throw the whole tree away
Lmao 😂
U gatta burn it
Lol
There, I'm you're 667 like.
I just saved your life. You're welcome
Nerfus gotta throw the whole species away
male wasp: impregnates sisters
me: *sweet home Alabama*
Well they do grow in Alabama ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@CrazyWeatherDude Lmao true
Lol
Sweet home Japan. The place where dating your cousins and general incest has actually been common and accepted for centuries because they have been isolated on an island so long with no immigrants until recently.
@@juswolf22 sorry bro- I mean dad.
I lived in the Middle East for many years where fig trees are abundant. The figs there have two growing seasons - one before the wasps get to them, and the other, later in the year when the wasps find them. Figs in the later season were always juicier and sweeter.
Yumm
Wasp juice! 😊
Sometimes, we don't need to know. Thank you science.
CIOFIDE 444 likes k don’t wanna press like even though I want to!
biting into a fig and sees half a wasp D:
777 likes now!
Yeah we don’t need to know that we are eating wasps now I don’t wanna eat that anymore
I swear if I find out watermelon has some type of bug in it me n mother nature gonna have a problem
+madscientistshusta
woah, slow down there buddy.
madscientistshusta I'm white and I don't like watermelon
itsshy btw its always some white bum that dont like us black females ....never fail
itsshy btw we goin have to fight if it do
itsshy btw You already got insects on your eyes and in your scalp. They be everywhere, no getting away from 'em.
When I was a kid my Granddad had a Fig tree which was always filled with Wasps. I still have nightmares where I´m eating a fig and there´s Wasps in it! Now I know the reason!
Most commercial figs, like the ones you buy at the store, are grown without wasps.
Some types of fig that are grown for human consumption ripen without pollination. It is also possible to trick plants into ripening their figs without wasps present 👌👍
How many calories in a dead wasp?
13
Bear Grylls might know better.
nah,he knows all about piss, but not about wasps
0
How much protein do I have to count in for the wasp ? LOL
=.= you... impregnate your sisters... who aren't even born yet...
how romantic
wanderer damion so this isn't normal...?
Is this what the weeaboos call "Wincest"?
you mean "Twincest"
Wincest ain't hardcore enough for weebs.They are only brothers.
Twincest is with twins *Lenny face*
Think about how it feels to be born horny as f*** :p Only your unborn sisters around and your body is telling you to penetrate the heck out of them... Awww yissss, sweet blisssss
I am born and raised in Bangladesh. When I came to America I learned to eat fig. In Bangladesh we have wild fig trees everywhere you go but we don't eat fig in Bangladesh often. When I was a little kid I used to break the ripe fig those ones are dropped from the tree. Alot of wasps use to fly away and I used to get the sweet fragrance of the fig that will force you to take a bite of a fig. I was so curious to know why the wasps comes out of the fig when you break them. Now I know it. Thanks for your kind information.🇧🇩😊
As if there weren’t enough reasons to hate wasps...
My reply doesn't matter either
🤣
Hate? These guys are the reasons figs survived this long lol
Never eaten a fig before... Now guess I never will
DoritoWolf77 same
Yes you have
don't be such a fig, eat a fig
DoritoWolf77 same.
Same
I'm supposed to be doing homework...
Same
same but Im here at 3 am in the morning ;_;
sauceslick same lmao
sauceslick dude you saved my ass. Thanks
sauceslick Same here
This is one of those things that you always hear growing up but never actually research. Until today, that is. It's actually kind of fascinating!
I'm gonna just cut open every fig from now on out of paranoia, thanks alot.
Only Capri figs need to be pollinated with wasps tho
The figs digest the wasps, there won’t be anything but seeds in there
@@theworthysoulthat’s the worst part is you can’t even tell 😭
*high pitch scream*
aakla this made me lol 😂😂😂😂
aakla REEEEEEEE
figs are not crazy
How did you write in bold
Diamondgamer Diamond asterix before and after *test*
finally i have a reason behind my fig hatred
Bronabonle congratulations
Same
*I finally have a reason to not eat them*
homophobia.
you cant ever actually get a wasp in your fig when you eat it, the figs actually use the bodys of the wasp as energy and they completely disappear once they are ripe. so there is no chance of actually biting into a fig wasp.
Cap, one flew out of mine today😅
@@ryancrouch5423 cap, the wasp would be long dead by the time you eat it
@@anonymouspersonthefake one of my parents friends has a farm and they have a bunch of fig trees; and when I bit into one, something definitely flew out of it. Idk what else to say😭😂
It thanks you, chances like 0.0001% and it finally escaped
1:58 hmm what gonna happen
2:03.SWEET HOME ALABAMA
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfaoo
step-BZzZZZz what are you doing?
When I was young my Nana would say there's bugs in those fig Newtons- to prevent us kids from eating them, later I heard it was just a myth, now I end up finding out it was true all along. I am mortified.
The Batman I’m showing this video to my mom to see if I can gross her out. She LOVES fig newtons
Dude I used to love fig Newtons and people would say they were gross and now I know why
*_-Your not mortified, your batman-_*
I love your Nana
The Batman lol
lmao she looked so hesitant biting into that fig
sinagelh17 MMMMMMMMMM
Hello! This is a wonderful video and thanks for educating us on something so interesting. Can I ask how you made those cute animations of the wasp inside the fig? Which program did you use?
"They enter through a tiny opening at the fig’s bottom that’s highly selective it usually only lets in the exact species of wasps that pollinate it".
This is way too close to human relationships
Guess which fruit im not eating anymore?
Exactly..... apples
Apples have cyanide.
@@ntl5983 and happyness
GD Tempest q
And I use to really love figs!
@@ntl5983 You have AIDS
So they're not vegan?
Yasmin Garcia i guess....
Haha
Veganism is a mental illness. It is not based in science, but a mere animal phobia.
Grain harvesting killing million of animal traped in the machinery. Veggies require manure to grow. There are animal part in grain, fruits and nuts. One can't eat, and therefore live, without killing. Life eat life.
Human are omnivore, they are meant to eat both vegetal and animal food.
Veganism is a unhealthy phobia of animal food. Probably due to their denial of their own animal nature. Vegans are retards, and you should avoid associate with them.
Big Mofo but its not a mental illness
Fig fruit can contain only 1 body of wasp sized only 1 mm and thisbody is usually totally dissolved inside the plant. So, no problem for vegans. I studied this question and these wasps.
ANY WASP I SEE
ITS A FIG WASP
ah yes a fellow member of the weirdo swarm
This is exactly the kind of content I want in my suggestion list. Subscribed immediately ❤️❤️😍
She stopped uploading long ago
I’ve never even seen a fig in person
Just Chilin they’re the best
Yeah, especially if you like wasp maggots. Yum
Same
Me neither...
Figs aren't people????
This makes my ass itch, poor figs.
Ashlee Bear what does the ass add? lol
Ashlee Bear 😂😂😂😂
I learned about this in, of all places, my college writing class about two months ago. We had a writing assignment where we read an essay on this very subject.
I remember watching this video three years ago and here I am again
I laughed out loud at "Goodbye, cruel world."
me too hahahahaha
bleh
Bleh! x_x
topkek
Thanks for letting us know
I have a wild fig tree in my back yard that I eat from every year.... I'm SHOOK
Marie Zombiie JUNGSHOOKETH
Marie Zombiie me too girl me too
Me too. Ack
It's from a few houses down the street but me too. #metoo
Same!!
Wow I heard this and I knew this vaguely, but .....this was a great video!!Thanks for all the details
Its sad that great channel like this not active anymore...
Dead Wasp? Don’t you mean extra Protein!?
Protein? Don't you mean extra nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen?
And don't you mean extra deadly?
you mean *Ni* , *O* , *C* , *H* ?
Don’t you mean extra parasites*
@@lolleepop8720 hey nickel is not a cell constituent
Too much knowledge is dangerous
The science guy made honey sound cool, depending upon what age group you were when you found out the bee barf was honey.
This is what I was thinking about, Lol
More pø¹węř
Liberating*
ignorance is bliss
Awesome video. Thanks Anna!
I planted a dwarf fig tree about 4 years ago. It has grown bigger than it was supposed to. The last couple of years I've gotten a dozen or so figs each summer. How do I attract the wasps that pollinate the figs?
This is why I can't eat healthy
Right? Nope, keep ya figs lady.
ImWorth no... as gross as it sounds but I think eating those wasps are just as healthy as eating the fig. since likely those wasps are enriched in semi pure protein.
ImWorth in packaged food, it is red food dye extracted from bugs lived on cactus, in fig newtons theres still wasps chocolate probably still contain bugs on it the spices&herbs has ground up bugs n worms and you should watch nutrition facts org or bitesize vegan or smthng to see what eggs actually are& how milk taken from cows
You are welcome
there are still bugs in the stuff you eat. processing foods doesn't make it go away, it just assimilates into the final product. and ALWAYS cook your meats until they are brown or fully cooked, because you can either get salmonella, mad cow disease, tape worms, hook works, or just about any other flesh parasite.
Gorilladigold Ew no. My beef will reach its correct temperature but if you brown it all the way you're a monster. Also Peanut butter has ground up bugs in it. Candy with a shiny coating is made from beetle shells. And you already swallow some odd 7 spiders a year so I mean. It as you wish
If an apple has a worm,
If a banana has a spider
and if a fig has wasps...
What next?
Gamers for Real lmao omg
Anime have Weeaboos and Otakus
Strawberries have Acari
then that must mean.... oh no
Peridot Pines oranges have Pigs
Thank you for the information. I grew up eating wild figs. I peel the skin off. We don't eat them with the skin on unless they are dried. They are delicious.
i used to love these videos as a kid ^^
Remind me not to eat this hell spawned food
i heard pomegranate is the same way
you have to take the seeds out a pomegranate then eat the seeds. you'd know if there was a wasp
Alec Hernandez It's actually considered as a fruit from heaven...
Alec Hernandez : Ah, don't be such a puritan. You know you've swallowed worse things back in your college days. LOL
A single Hershey's chocolate bar(or any chocolate bar, for that matter,) contains at least 8 bug parts, heads, wings, legs, even whole insects.
When the cocoa(that makes chocolate) rots, bugs get attracted to the cocoa beans and sometimes lose their legs/wings and occasionally die. Then, cocoa farmers harvest the beans to grind it and make chocolate.
Anything less than 60 insect pieces per 100 grams of chocolate, which is about 2 bars of chocolate is deemed "safe" by the FDA.
Don't even get me started on peanut butter...
Food for thought: The FDA allows a certain % of insect parts in everything we consume.
Wasps are fairly clean insects. Much better than roaches.
Jay Duby - and rodent hair, etc.
Well skittles and most types of candy are made from beetles.
two sciles italy well thats new...... looks like ive been earing bugs...
*eating
lmao made from beetles. No I believe it is one of the colourings used for a certain flavour that is made from some type of beetle but they are not "made of beetles". I remember my cousin telling me they were made out of "mosquito lungs" when we were kids.
I was thrilled to find a lovely and very old fig tree in a piece of land that I have now managed to buy, and that was originally a part of my home and garden but was taken off over 40 years ago. I must say that although I enjoy eating figs, I no longer will. Wasps and I don't get along at all!
This is so fascinating
That little bit of reassurance at the end was not very reassuring...
Friend: liar you have never ate a bug.
Me: yes I have!
Friend: when?
Me: when I ate a fig.
Friend: what's a fig?
😂
@@queenofsleep4386 figures
At the end of the video, she took a bite of the fig she was holding like if it was her time trying it. It's hard for me to believe it's one of her favorite fruits (mentioned at the beginning of the video) when she's so hesitant to bite into it. Just an observation.
This is new info to me! Great presentation! Subscribed 🎉
Why is she so happy about eating a wasp...
Edit: a dead wasp... a dead wasp
This channel has an episode about how entomophagy is super cool, so I'm not surprised.
You probably eat dead animal flesh and secretions.
BraveHeart Jamaa Yeah but who the hell would want to??
Leon Chen She forgot to mention all of the live larvae she was eating along with the dead wasp
I'm so happy I've never eaten a fig
Bubear9 same
same
me too
Justice.Danii sammeeee
Same here
Just finished watching a clip about bugs in strawberries.. now this.
This is frickin awesome!
when she picked up the fig i expected a wasp to randomly fly out.
😂😂😂
BigMushroom Top That's not how it works, the wasp inside always dissolves
BigMushroom Top lol
I never knew a wasp’s life was so miserable... i feel so bad for hating them this whole time
elieTV these are FIG wasps not normal wasps. You can still hate normal wasps just as much
elieTV wasps are evil and filled with the rage of 1000 suns... they dont deserve pity..
Labrek Studios inc wtf hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Labrek Studios inc Not cruel as human tho
An autistic pinguin no... wasps are worse... my dad once saw a a wasp catch a fly mid-air, tear off its wings, and fly off with it...
I bit into one of these once from a tree in my backyard, I took half of it out and realized it was crawling with these suckers. Never ate one without checking ever again..
I guess that explains their crunchiness!!
Oh well, extra protein
Natacha Śnieżka damnit I was gonna say this but u already said it, 😢 nice though
Heck yeah. And also to tell your friends you are insects.
@@crispp9240 that's what my dad will say if I bit into one
@@wuvvy6122 OMGG me too my dad always says that if there are so many bugs on my food
@@crispp9240 are we.., siblings? :D
attracted to young figs. goes inside the young figs bottom....
IM CALLING THE POLICE
FBI OPEN UP
5555555555
DarKshine DaKid especially when it’s their own SISTERS 😐 😰
@@julianbailon4966 baby sisters... well not even baby, unborn sisters
DarKshine DaKid 😂😂😂
That is a very convoluted way to pollinate a plant.
The fig is an apartment for wasp, as well as a wasp factory, a store house, a sacrificial chamber, a playground for male wasp, etc, an important thing.
Ok so show us a fig that has dead wasps in it.
How is she supposed to do that?
There won't be a an actual dead wasp because the femal fig excretes an enzyme that fully digests the wasp to fully ripen the fig! So you won't see a wasp carcass.
thanks for pointing this out
@@grobanite4ever85 you can still see wasp inside the fig they just wouldn't be fully formed
I found a wasp in mine....
Anyone else notice the shoe plant on the shelf behind her.
Superlancashire hahHaa! Yep!
Wall-E?
Your off topic lol
So does the wasp disolve and become a part of the plant or is a body just chilling in the fruit?
Becomes a crunch!😋
The female fig fruit has ficain in it, an enzyme that breaks down the tiny wasp. Then the fruit would just absorb the protein to help itself ripen. Any crunch would just be seeds. Also, common figs that have not been pollinated can produce seeds asexually.
dissolves and the wasp is very tiny, roughtly 2mm fruit flies probably are bigger
This is worse than finding half a worm in your apple
"many of whom are their sisters, they poke thru them and impregnate them before they are even born"
ok thx
Kill me bruh soooo, in the trailer park, huh?
That's hot.
Onii-chan!
*Incest is not wincest*
i mean theres probably dead wasps inside of me too
'Goodbye, cruel world'
14 year olds be like
**DaMn i FeLt ThAt**
Wasps: OMG it's free real estate
Humans: ooh yummy
But we don't keep up our end of the bargain, no pooping new trees from us, unless they grow in the sewer :(
LARRY!
But we do, we just do it differently.
Animals just crap anywhere. Our farmers deliberately grow figs in suitable locations and tend to them ensuring their survival. Look how successful wheat has become? It struck lucky when human beings discovered it. Figs have been similarly fortunate.
But it doesn't matter since we grow them on farms. If we took them from the wild and pooped them in toilets then that would cause the problem.
Larry pls do another collab with ashens
I've found flora growing in sewers here and there, but I do doubt that any of them are Fig tree's.
R.I.P vegans
Vegans tend not to eat figs though
FrostBloodGames bring it on lmao 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
lol wasps arent enslaved to do thar, its just a natural relationship betweem a plant and a bug 🤷🏽♂️ there are no cages. and btw, most figs like she said are the common figs
Rest in pieces?
@FrostBloodGames Um what okey I've ate meat since i was 2 and i don't got any of them BRING IT ON!
so THAT’s why my fig bars are sometimes crunchy
People be talking about how gross fig is. Here I am getting claustrophobic imagining what those wasps going through.
"This is my hole, this hole is made for me"
“Goodbye cruel world bleh” 😂💦😐
I know eh! I laughed hard at this one...
Lol ikr
Hahahahah
Xx_Iphone_xX XD
Or just a preteen?
She didn’t bite that fig tho. Exposed
Sylvia Zegan hahahhaa! I noticed that too 😂🤣
Why would she pretend to eat it though 👀
@@alexanderbizardi1075 she does in the end
That's the tea 🍵
Bimtav design No they could have cut a bite into it with a knife or something and she pretended she was eating it
Fun fact, most Fig species that do get wasp visitors, tend to partially or fully digest any dead, or trapped guests by the time they're ready to harvest for your table.
Wow, I will never look at a fig the same anymore!
She didn't mentioned that most if not all wasp are infected with parasite worms. The parasite worms also lays it's eggs along with the wasp's eggs. Then there's parasite wasp too.
Maybe this part was just too gross for gross science.
TooSexyfrTube
😨😱💀
ToooSexy, you have parasitic worms in your head. And they do most of the thinking.
I'll show you some gross science ;^)
Mike Foley MAN U SAVAGE !
No they don't
*VEGAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT*
Qwerty Uiop in some cultures insects are a delicacy, so technically yes!
@Qwerty Uiop It's almost impossible to avoid eating insects
Qwerty Uiop I personally have only tried caramel crickets, but I know spiders & are a huge one that I haven’t gotten to
😂😂😂 I’m dropping this fig I just picked up in the garbage now.
AndroidDoctorr /Killing
Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside... Great videos, thank you.
ok, that's seriously interesting. Thank you!
So glad I've never had a fig.
TheChickenRiceBowl right 😷😷
TheChickenRiceBowl ur lucky I had like 30 figs before
TheChickenRiceBowl
Jh
TheChickenRiceBowl same
Same
"...that certainly wets my appetite."
Hannah Gonzalez 😍😍😍
DonnellTheGreat ??
Hannah Gonzalez I said you were pretty but ok
DonnellTheGreat no I was putting "??" because I wasn't sure what you were trying to say. But thank you.
it's "whet"
I LOVEEEEEE YOUR EXPLANATION 👍 Thank you
There goes me, ever eating figs again.
Fig Newtons are made of wasps?!?
MM420 I mean yeah but they are cooked so I don't think you have anything to worry about at that point lmao
omg 😢
LOL! No. Domesticated figs don't have wasps. Only wild figs do.
MM420 was thinking the same thing. Lol
MM420 You betcha. Bon appetit.
Not all figs need fig wasps because many varieties have evolved to be self pollinating. This video covers the types that are capri figs (ones that require fig wasps to pollinate). Fig wasps do not exist in most parts of the USA and most fig varieties cultivated in the USA are not capri figs.
I want to try one but its si scary. Anyway thank you for clarifying.
Not evolve but gmo by humans.
@@strivetobeborn1019 That's still evolution, just evolution by unnatural selection.
@@fabplays6559 yes but its not natural, n we natural. Gmo is cancerous to our natural body. Now evil science evil human bring in new humanism.
@@strivetobeborn1019 Cancer is natural, cancer treatment is not.
I’m just afraid of getting stung when eating a delicious fig lol
And to think I could have blissfully gone about my life without knowing this