Hello gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. About half the cultivated varieties of figs are dioecious and have a very complicated means of pollination. The male trees have developing figs with both male and female flower parts inside them. A mated female wasp, so tiny she can fit through the eye of a needle, enters a receptive fig through a small pore, or ostiole. She lays eggs in the female flowers with short calyxes, the botanical term for floral tubes.