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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave. So this is Short Stuff.
Yeah, this is an episode where I was very surprised, and I even went back, that when we did our episode on wasps, we even got emails about this, so I'm pretty sure we did not cover it. Yeah. But we're talking about fig wasps of the fig tree specifically, not the kind that you see, like almost all fig tree varieties are not ones that you eat the fruit of.
That's a very specific one, the ones like you have out in your yard, They develop without pollination, which means they're parthenocarpic. But the ones where you eat the figs, they are grown commercially mainly in California here in the United States. They are calamurna figs, and they are imported from Turkey.
And the ficus carica, or the fig wasp, is also imported from Turkey because they have a very special relationship.
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