Eating Wasps

For the squeamish out there you may think you would never willingly eat insects but if you've eaten a fig, chances are you've eaten the remains of a wasp and its larvae.

From Oscillator via The Daily Dish...

Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp can lay her eggs...

...The females, armed with the pollen, fly off in search of new male figs to lay her eggs in. In the process some of the female wasps land on female figs that don't have the special egg receptacle but trick the female into shimmying inside. As the female wasp slides through the narrow passage in the fig her wings are ripped off and while she is unsuccessful in laying her eggs, she successfully pollinates the female flower.

The female flower then ripens into the [Smyrna] fig that you can get at the supermarket, digesting the trapped wasp inside with specialized enzymes!