 Figs have an obligate mutualism with fig wasps ( Agaonidae ) ; figs are only pollinated by fig wasps , and fig wasps can only reproduce in fig flowers . Generally , each fig species depends on a single species of wasp for pollination . The wasps are similarly dependent on their fig species to reproduce . The assumption that fig species are usually pollinated by just one species of fig wasp has been challenged by the discovery of cryptic species complexes among what was previously thought to be single species of fig wasps . Ficus obliqua is pollinated by two species of fig wasp — Pleistodontes <unk> and P. xanthocephalus . 
