Trees Retaliate When Their Fig Wasps Don't Service Them

What happens when a wasp lays its eggs but fails to pollinate the fig? The trees get even by dropping those figs to the ground, killing the baby wasps inside. (Cornell University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute study, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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