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FIG WASP A fig wasp is an insect in the classification group called Agaonidae. Fig wasps are able to fly around and sting you if they feel threatened or annoyed. ||
 * INTRODUCTION:

ANATOMY:

The fig wasp has one thorax, one head and one abdomen. They have three pairs of legs. The females have two wings but the males don’t. A fig wasp's size is about 1.5mm long. To tell the females and males apart, females have long heads and males have turned under tails and are wingless. Their colour is black and yellow.

HABITAT:

Fig wasps are almost everywhere in the world but mostly in forests, woodlands and near fig trees because that’s where they mostly make their nests.



FEEDING AND PREDATORS: Fig wasps mostly feed on small insects and ripe fruit and sweet foods in summer. Predators of a fig wasp are caterpillars, spiders and big dangerous insects.

FOOD CHAIN The food chain of a fig wasp is



Reproduction The fig wasps breed young. The queen lays the eggs in her nest.



The life cycle

The life cycle starts when the queen wasp lays the eggs in the nest. The wasp pupa, then grows into a pupa adult. Finally it turns into a fully grown adult wasp.

Cool Facts about Wasps
 * There are over 30,000 identified species of wasps
 * Most wasps can't sting - they are non-stinging varieties
 * Wasps are about the same size as a paperclip
 * Only female wasps have stingers