Queen of Trees Video Questions
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1. What animals eat the fig tree leaves?
2. How do fig trees protect themselves from predators?
3. How do long horned beetles and katydids get around the fig trees’ protections?
4. How does the pink mantis benefit from the fig tree?
Section II
5. Explain how each of these animals is a part of the fig tree story:
a. Nematode worms
b. Parasitic wasps
c. Banded wasps
d. Ants
e. Hilda bugs
f. Bees
Section III
6. Describe what male fig wasps do when the wasp larvae have grown to adult size.
7. Describe what female wasps do when the wasp larvae have grown to adult size.
8. What are the nematodes and the parasitic wasps doing as the fig wasps hatch?
9. What do the newly hatched male and female wasps do with the fig flowers?
Section IV
10. Describe what is going on with animals such as these as the fig wasps escape from the figs:
a. Gecko
b. Snake
c. Damsel flies
d. Spiders
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Section V
11. What are animals such as these do after the figs are ripe?
a. Monkeys
b. Green pigeons
c. Elephants
d. Tiger beetles
e. Antelope
12. How are the numbers of parasitic wasps kept in check?
13. How is the life cycle of fig trees different from the life cycle of most Utah trees, allowing all of these
animals to be dependent upon the fig tree?
Section VI
14. How are these animals a part of the fig tree life cycle?
a. Butterflies
b. Fish
c. Crocodiles
15. Many fig seeds drift downstream, and sprout there. What occasionally carries seeds upstream so new
trees can grow there?
16. Why don’t seeds sprout under existing fig trees?
17. Describe the role of fruit bats in the life cycle of fig trees.
Section VII
18. Describe how female fig wasps complete their lifecycle and the reproductive cycle of the fig trees.
19. What do fig wasps do for fig trees?
20. What do fig trees do for fig wasps?