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You may be surprised to learn that figs contain dead wasps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig:... pollinated by a symbiosis with a fig wasp (Blastophaga psenes). The fertilized female wasp enters the fig through the scion, which has a tiny hole in the crown (the ostiole). She crawls on the inflorescence inside the fig and pollinates some of the female flowers. She lays her eggs inside some of the flowers and dies.
After weeks of development in their galls, the male wasps emerge before females through holes they produce by chewing the galls. The male wasps then fertilize the females by depositing semen in the hole in the gall. The males later return to the females and enlarge the holes to enable the females to emerge.
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I've not been able to eat peaches since, as a child, watching that scene in the labrynth where Sarah eats a maggoty peach.