They live inside fig receptacles and pollinate and fractify the flowers.
Blastophaga pesenes
develops in the capri fig (wild) and pollinates symyrna fig (edible cultivated
fig).
10. VESPIDAE (Yellow jackets, Hornets)
Lateral extensions of the pronotum reach the point of insertion of wings and do not form rounded
lobes
.
Abdomen is conical
They construct nest with `wasp paper', a substance made from fragments of chewed
wood mixed with saliva.
They are either solitary or social wasps.
They are generally predaceous on Lepidopteran caterpillars. Many paralysed caterpillars
are stored in the cells of their nests. Eggs are suspended by a filament from the top of the
nest and the cell is sealed.
Yellow banded wasp
Vespa cincta
is a bee enemy.
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