The Queen of Trees: a video on the Sycamore Fig cycle of life

[mountainfigs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM

A tremendous video. Tough to be a fig wasp. And most any other creature around the fig and its mighty tree.

[Hanbury House]

I watched that video last week in trying to understand more about the relationship between fig wasps and caprification in general. It was a very good nature documentary, but the nematodes that preyed on the fig wasps creeped me out. Yuck.

I looked a little more carefully at the insides of the figs I have picked since, but I still can't tell if any of them are caprified. Either way, its been a delicious year for figs for here.

[rusty hooks]

I begin to wonder what part we play with our fig OCD.....after all, it may just be part of a bigger "Fig plan"

Exceptional video....Thanks for that Tony

[Hershell]

Rusty hooks, I often say that people are strange animals and others are offended by it but I wondered myself. Iook how far we carry cuttings and how far I get seed sent to me. It can't be by axident so it must be programmed in our brain just to get to taste a fig. Great video. I almost have it memorized I have watched it so many times. The hornbills are all going to make it eventually so I keep watching.

[rusty hooks]

We are strange animals indeed Hershell, sometimes I think that wonderment is what sets us apart, after all...it is what takes us down different paths

Like yourself, I am also a beekeeper....I've often wondered about that as well

[Taverna78]

Maybe we are second to last on food chain. We eat the fig that make us taste better and soon something eat us

[Taverna78]

I could not resist. I watch entire movie. Belle! Wonderful story! Thanks god we no hAve fig wasp in Chicago 😁