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RE: A world with no males - reality is stranger than fiction.
Oak apples are nuts!
Who knew.
Keep those pollinators alive!
unless they don't actually pollinate. Then forget I said that...
Oak apples are nuts!
Who knew.
Keep those pollinators alive!
unless they don't actually pollinate. Then forget I said that...
Oak gall wasps don't pollinate in their gall making activities at least, although another famous gall wasp does pollinate figs in a very bizarre way. A fig is crazy, the flowers are totally enclosed in a structure called the syconium, so when a fig flowers the flowers are actually not exposed to the air at all. They are 100% dependent on gall wasps for pollination, the gall wasps lay their eggs inside the syconium and when the mature wasps are ready to leave the syconium they carry with them the pollen from the flowers inside the syconium they grew up in, and they take that pollen with them as they seek out a new fig syconium to burrow inside of (pollinating that one in the process).
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