Please, help me identify the red fruit and orange coloured insects as found in this picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polywj/153995325/
Thanks!
2006-12-19 02:23:35 · 4 answers · asked by papyrus 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Yep, this picture was taken in Malaysia. Locals call it "ribena berry" because juice can be extracted from it and drank.
2006-12-19 22:11:58 · update #1
the fruit is known as SORREL(in the caribbean)not 2 sure about the bug on it
2006-12-20 12:12:25 · answer #1 · answered by O:) Charmin:X 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you gave a location it might help. I assumed Malaysia based on your other photos.
Judging from the form of the plant and leaves, it looks like a relative of Symphoricarpos (snowberry) in the Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle) family; but I can't find anything whose fruit matches, and nothing in the same order that has fruit like that.
The insects are true bugs, some sort of plant bug or seed bug in the family Miridae, but I can't do any better than that either.
Maybe if you asked a local source?
2006-12-19 07:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by candy2mercy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not a fruit, but an opening flower, and those are definately true bugs (family Hemiptera) and not fig wasps.
You can tell by the "X" formed on their back by the first pair hardened of wings partially covering the second pair of wings.
I wish I could be of more help.
2006-12-19 05:54:06 · answer #3 · answered by dtbrantner 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a fig and those are fig wasps.
2006-12-19 04:39:58 · answer #4 · answered by blewmoon2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋