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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Figs & Wasps

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today Chuck and Josh look at the interesting relationship between figs and wasps.

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.1

Hi, I'm Kristen Davis.

0:07.2

Host of the podcast, Are You a Charlotte?

0:09.5

Sarah Jessica Parker is here.

0:11.5

And she is sharing stories from the very beginning.

0:14.6

Like the time she forgot, we filmed the pilot episode.

0:17.7

I remember some things about shooting the pilot.

0:20.0

Right.

0:20.6

I have some memories. I can fill you in. You're going to fill me in. Yes. But then you forgot about it. I remember some things about shooting the pilot. Right. I have some memories.

0:21.5

I can fill you in. You're going to fill me in. Yes. But then you forgot about it in the very

0:25.4

long time they took to pick us out. Listen to Are You a Charlotte on the Iheart Radio app,

0:31.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.6

Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave.

0:43.7

So this is Short Stuff.

0:44.7

Yeah, this is an episode where I was very surprised.

0:48.5

And I even went back that when we did our episode on wasps, we even got emails about this, so I'm pretty sure we did not cover it.

0:55.2

Yeah.

0:55.6

But we're talking about fig wasps of the fig tree, specifically, not the kind that you see, like, almost all fig tree varieties are not ones that you eat the fruit of.

1:07.9

That's a very specific one, the ones like you have out in your yard, they develop

1:12.9

without pollination, which means they're parthenicarpic. But the ones where you eat the figs,

1:18.9

they are grown commercially, mainly in California here in the United States. They are Kalamurna figs,

1:24.4

and they are imported from turkey, and the Phicus Karikaika or the fig wasp is also imported from Turkey because they have a very special relationship.

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