FIGJAM

[drhoz]

Figs are a highly successful family of plants found all over the world's tropical zone, and well into the subtropical areas as well. They've been around for at least 60 Million years, possibly 80 million, and much of their success comes from a hundred million generations of incest, fraticide, and paranoia. One reason it's hard to be sure when figs

Comments

[mistressindi]

an arms race for the biggest jaws, sneakiest fig anatomy, or longest vagina-slash-drillbit

Congratulations! You are my hero, today, for constructing a sentence that uses all of that.

[pygmybugs]

Dang, you beat me to it. Vagina-slash-drillbit is the best term for an ovipositor I've ever heard.

[drhoz]

thankyou :D

[drhoz]

yay!

[featherfire]

Well that, I must say, was fascinating. oO

Figs r gud.

[drhoz]

yup!

[kohda]

Now that is quite awesome.

[drhoz]

isn't it, just?

[kayla_malfoy]

yeeesh! i really hope that i've been eating domesticated figs :0

[drhoz]

probably :)

[davegodfrey]

Richard Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable has a good chapter on fig wasp evolution.

[drhoz]

I shall have to hunt it down - after all, Dawkins was smart enough to marry a Time Lady :D