When I saw this question, my first reaction was “Huh?!?!?!?” So, I looked up. The answer is, “Sort of.” Because of the nature of figs, they require an insect, called a fig wasp, for pollination. Figs are either male, or female. read more
The fig wasp burrows a hole into the fig, and lays eggs if it is a male fig, and simply dies if it is a female fig. The eggs in a male fig hatch into larvae that burrow out, and carry the pollen with them. read more
Those little insects are fig wasps, and they play an essential role in the fig's life cycle as the plant's only pollinator. That means that for pollen from one fig plant to reach another plant, fig wasps must do all the leg work. read more
After that, the figs quickly ripens, and people (and other animals) like to eat them. So yes, there is at least one dead wasp inside the figs that we like to eat. Don't worry! We don't end up chomping on wasp exoskeleton. The figs produce ficin, a special enzyme that breaks down the insect's body into proteins that get absorbed by the plant. read more