Wasps Inside Figs | Incredible Creatures 

Exactly!

Cut off the back end of the fig, the felame is looking for the opposite end, and the males are just gonna make a new hole out. Cover the cut end with serane wrap, you can see everything inside without leaving a big hole. Or maybe they just pushed a small camara through the other end, idk lol.

Lmao same

The camera man can do everything

@@Ryuzo0Artis most likely used one of those ear cameras doctors use, don’t know how it’s so high quality

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Seriously!

Your comment made me realise :) The timing and the effort behind it all!!!

It was filmed with tiny cameras...😁

Really amazing

Wow, thanks for your comment! Great to hear that you like our fig wasp video! 🤗

Except for the propaganda for the god of Evolution at the end. So unnecessary.

​@@earlysda "God of evolution"? I don't know who told you evolution is a god, but they are either very stupid or just massively misunderstanding. Evolution is a natural process, not a god, nor dictated by one. In a very simple sense, evolution is basically the development of characteristics that are useful for a species over time, and sometimes losing characteristics no longer useful. This is caused by mutations in DNA, and sometimes these mutations provide great benefit to survivability to a species, and as such, those with the beneficial mutation will survive better to continue passing it on until it is the new "normal" for said species. Over billions of years, this process has led to all the life we see, derived from a common ancestor that all life shares, most likely a very simple single cellular organism. We can even see this process happening today in real time, like bacteria developing genes that make then resistant to antibiotics, thus improving survival, and passing it on which is going to be a big problem for medicine in the future as more time passes. So evolution is not a "god" of any type, nor is a god necessary for the process to occur. Even most Christians nowadays understand evolution is an undeniable, observable fact of nature, they just place god as the one who "created" life in the first place and "directed" evolution, although I personally don't believe in that. Most Christians understand Adam and eve is a tale made up by ancient people to explain something they had absolutely no understanding of. Although Muslims do still believe the Adam and eve tale, because they believe the earth is only 6 thousand years old, which, yea, good luck finding evidence for that, because all the evidence proves earth is about 4.5 billion years old, life has been around for billions of years (dinosaurs, lol) and universe is far older even still. No god in evolution, no god needed nor mentioned anywhere in the theory, just plain scientific, observable facts and cold hard evidence proving it. Although again, most Christians do put their god as the "force" behind evolution and "creator" of life, which hey, whatever floats your boat.

​@@earlysdaExactly!! Thank you! The earth is probably around 6000 years old

@@brad144k Yes, Brad! Nice to see fellow humans who are not brainwashed by the Evolutionary dogma pushed on the populace. . Jesus is coming back soon. Let's be ready!

lol that does sound like a horror movie

Isn't nature beautiful?

But instead of a bunker it’s a giant organic sphere

i think the fact that the males do that while their sister are yet to be born , makes this way worse

True it's like a meaningless life

Is this because genes basically never really mix and only mutate due to parents being allways siblings?

@@Schoko4craft I imagine with multiple wasps going into the same fig you would get genetic mixing.

​@@Schoko4craft yes and no, yes because it depends on where on earth and bugs can't travel and have a very short lifespan, so they can't mix. BUT they can if they where in the same place, problem is just that they aren't. And it's hard to even accidentally immigrate another type, because they have a very low lifespan. But it's like humans, we have Asian, European, African's etc. We look differently but we can still reproduce, and are all human. The thing is over thousands of years the earth has seperate, all the continents used to be connected at one point. And yes we constantly mutate, every living being evolve and mutate, humans average height has gone up, IQ has gone up and we have a "tailbone" for a reason

I wanna find the dude who spent his career analyzing exotic 2mm long suicidal wasps 🤣

@@stonecoldracing6 wasp taxonomy is actually really interesting. its estimated that if every species of parasitoid wasps were discovered wasps would be even more diverse than beetles, and oftentimes the only difference between species of the tiny barely visible parasitoids is the species of arthropod that they lay eggs on/in

But it’s also a part of bigger ecosystem, so not that simple. It’s about adaptation to surroundings and building the more stable environment, people are trying to do the same at the most.

@@Vlow52 Yes exactly..! After seeing this video we realise that every single life on earth is so well connected. The ecosystem is far big than we humankind could ever study.

Shouldn't it be Altruism then , not mutualism?

It's to keep the genes going to be precise.

I know way too many humans who have accomplished nothing more with their lives.

Apparently many females lay their eggs in the same fruit.

Sweet home Alabama

yeah it does seem messed up but what our human brains perceives as morally “right or wrong” does not apply to other organisms. we cannot anthropomorphize these views onto insects because theyre so interesting and weird

So it's just our mind . But it's possible biologicaly for human rright

Thank you so much ❤️

i now know more about figs than will ever be useful for me. i dont even like figs. thank you

There’s no truth to it, the fruit digests the wasp before it ripens, the crunchy things are the fig seeds :)

It's really fascinating! 🙌🏻

God made all, glory to God and peace be with us through Jesus Christ.

@@goshareyourown right, these creations are fascinating. But no real evidence of evolution

@@Longpipejang ignorance is bliss

Nice AC logo ..... desynchronized

add subtitles in urdu as well

Hey Tera Mater , could you add videos on TikTok as well. I guess it could help.🙂

Thanks for your input, but we're a small team and focus on RU-vid. :)

Thank you for Hindi Subtitles

@@AmreshAmar You're welcome! :)

I was gonna ask for a source because I dont usually put any credibility on the comments section. But then I saw who wrote the comment.

Hey Dr Fursov. Since the wasp seals the entrance when she goes inside the fig, then her own sons mate with her own daughters. How does the wasp survive as a species if it is a result of continuous incest?

I think they don't need that because they reproduce so quickly and exponentially, that genetic defects are simple not relevant anymore.

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Thank you! :)

Unsure but there are plenty of tribes where there is maybe a hundred or so people and they get no outside genetic materials and they're fine. Perhaps as long as the mates are healthy then it just works.

Sweet home Alabama

Our crew does magic

i dont think it is lol. i think they mean horizontally not vertically.

@@jackrollins2847 makes sense now. Thanks

space wasps!

So nice of you, thanks! 🤗

@@terramater What is the name of the music playing in the background

Same way the wasp did it

Thanks for your nice comment! :) Yes, it's really ineffective, but they need this lifecycle because figs & wasps depend on each other to reproduce. Just as the fig wasp depends on the fig tree to complete its life cycle, the fig tree is counting on the wasp. Like most plants that reproduce using fruit, the fig tree’s fruit ripen only after its flowers are pollinated with a grain of pollen from another tree. It turns out that the wasps bring the pollen that triggers the growth of fig fruits. The mother wasp carries pollen from the flowers in her birth fig to the flowers in the new fig. Her daughters repeat the cycle, when they carry pollen from their birth fig to the flowers in their next figs.

@@terramater would u happen to know if the figs grow all year round, or if the wasp species kinda ..dies off with no specific fruit around? -ty

@@bizzhat yes the figs grow all year round, and the waspes depend on it

It showed multiple wasps going into one fig so maybe that’s how they get their genetic diversity, and sibling mating is just a backup if they’re alone in there

@@terramater Terra Mater, it was a great video until the end when you started proselytizing for the god of Evolution.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Oh Wow we are happy to hear that you enjoy our content 😊

To be fair, it seems that it is possible for multiple wasps to enter that same fig, so it’s not always completely incestuous.

Exactly what I was thinking. The highest altitude for a flying insect ever recorded is 6 km. Planes are not allowed to fly higher than 13 km above the ground, and the stateosphere ends at 50 km 😅 so that just cannot be true 🤨

@@mariakochanska5077 finally someone who also caught that was said. 😆

@mikeeclipse But then I gave it a second thought, and I think they were talking about how far they can fly horizontally, not vertically 🙈😅 Cuz then those 50 km would make sense 🙃

@@mariakochanska5077 you know what?... you're probably right. Good thinking Maria. 😁🤘🏻

@mikeeclipse 😂 I'll be able to sleep peacefully tonight after all 😮‍💨😂

Good question! Hard to answer, right? :)

@@terramater it’s hard to answer if you believe in the impossibility of evolution! Without God, there is no purpose of anything, this would all be just some type of cosmic accident! How can you believe that some type of cell spontaneously generated into existence, and had the ability of asexual reproduction by making a copy of its single strand of DNA 🧬 and splitting into two single cells, and that process continued for millions of years until somehow, one of the single cells has a random genetic mutation, and “evolved” into a different species of single celled organism, and this goes on for billions of years resulting in humans evolving from a random genetic mutation to a chimpanzee?

The ripe figs have usually dissolved and absorbed the corpses inside it. But ya. Don’t eat unripe figs

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exactly!

That’s ridiculous, just about every fruit we eat is pollinated by bees that live to work themselves to death.

does your god know insects grow in my pome?

Did you miss the whole "fig tree pollination" part?

Natur is truly stunning, right?

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Thank you for watching it!

Hi @masihnewbie0! Our camera crew have some tricks up their sleeves!

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