What’s happened to this fig

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Anyone any ideas? All the othe fruits are fine. Is this down to a bug or something growing in it or just one of those things? I’m just curious. Thanks

I don't know, but... ugh.

Just one of those things. The skin looks like it was damaged so couldn’t grow to accommodate the fruit and it burst.

That needs to be in Sporners’ Corner.

Could it be a parasitoid wasp?

I've recently been informed that it's very common for wasps to lay their eggs in figs!!!!!

That needs to be in Sporners’ Corner
🤣

It makes me feel creeped out looking at it.
I am trying to decide if I’m brave enough to cut it open and see if something is in it or get DH to pick it & chuck it on the compost heap because if it bursts when I pick it I will freak out!

Cut it and chuck it!

I think that's probably earlier slug damage exposing the flowers inside. Or maybe a bird pecked at it when younger? They seem to have got fed up with it and it has dried off nicely. So if it ripens, it should be fine.

I am trying to decide if I’m brave enough to cut it open and see if something is in it or get DH to pick it & chuck it on the compost heap because if it bursts when I pick it I will freak out! Either would be a waste of a good fig. Leave it on the tree and hope it ripens, then eat it as normal.

I've recently been informed that it's very common for wasps to lay their eggs in figs Our wasp makes a papery nest which is larger than the entire fig, so you needn't worry about that.

What the person who told you may have misunderstood is that the wild fig has an elaborate symbiosis with a different species of wasp - all the flowers are inside the embryo fruit, and it relies on the wasp entering to pollinate the fruit. But we don't have the fig wasp in this country, so the only figs we can grow here are ones which are parthenogenetic, ie which can still develop fruit even without being pollinated.

Not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed!

That looks ready to eat!