First record of an apparently rare fig wasp feeding strategy: obligate seed predation

Fig Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) Associated with Asian Fig Trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in Southern Africa: Asian Followers and African Colonists

(2013) Simon van Noort et al.   AFRICAN INVERTEBRATES

Parasitism of a pollinator fig wasp: mortalities are higher in figs with more pollinators, but are not related to local densities of figs

(2013) NAZIA SULEMAN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Secondary galling: a novel feeding strategy among ‘non-pollinating’ fig wasps fromFicus curtipes

(2013) HUAN-HUAN CHEN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The dominant exploiters of the fig/pollinator mutualism vary across continents, but their costs fall consistently on the male reproductive function of figs

(2012) SIMON T. SEGAR et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Urbanized landscapes favored by fig-eating birds increase invasive but not native juvenile strangler fig abundance

(2012) Trevor Caughlin et al.   ECOLOGY

Molecular approaches identify known species, reveal cryptic species and verify host specificity of Chinese Philotrypesis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

(2012) MEI-JIAO ZHOU et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Moving Your Sons to Safety: Galls Containing Male Fig Wasps Expand into the Centre of Figs, Away From Enemies

(2012) Hui Yu et al.   PLoS One

An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

(2012) Astrid Cruaud et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The impact of a gall midge on the reproductive success of Ficus benjamina, a potentially invasive fig tree

(2011) Bai-Ge Miao et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Comparisons of host mitochondrial, nuclear and endosymbiont bacterial genes reveal cryptic fig wasp species and the effects of Wolbachiaon host mtDNA evolution and diversity

(2011) Xiao-Jing Sun et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Biotic resistance via granivory: establishment by invasive, naturalized, and native asters reflects generalist preference

(2011) Dean E Pearson et al.   ECOLOGY

Unravelling the process of weed seed predation: Developing options for better weed control

(2010) Bàrbara Baraibar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Effects of plant competition, seed predation, and nutrient limitation on seedling survivorship of spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)

(2010) David G. Knochel et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Population-level compensation by an invasive thistle thwarts biological control from seed predators

(2009) Julie M. Garren et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

New occurrence of non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in Ficus microcarpa in Brazil

(2009) Fernando H A Farache et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Evolutionary Ecology of Figs and Their Associates: Recent Progress and Outstanding Puzzles

(2008) Edward Allen Herre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Classical biological control: exploiting enemy escape to manage plant invasions

(2008) Heinz Müller-Schärer et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A Role for Parasites in Stabilising the Fig-Pollinator Mutualism

(2008) Derek W Dunn et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY