fig wasp


fig wasp

n. Any of various chalcid wasps that breed in figs, especially those in the family Agaonidae that have a mutualistic relationship with fig plants, acting as the sole pollinator and developing inside the fruit.

fig′ wasp`


n. a chalcid wasp, Blastophaga psenes, that pollinates figs, usu. of the Smyrna variety. [1880–85]