Shellac is the stuff that’s usually used to coat jelly beans. The rather gross thing about it, however, is that it’s made out of a secretion made by the female Kerria lacca insect, which is found in India and Thailand. Shellac is often described as confectioner's glaze or food additive E904 on food labels.
Seeing as figs are actually flowers as opposed to being fruits, they need to be pollinated, and that’s where the warm and fuzzy fig wasp comes in. Female fig wasps lay their larvae inside of male figs, then die inside of them before relying on her female babies to burrow out and continue the cycle.
The only problem is that they end up reproducing inside female figs, which can’t support a wasp’s reproductive cycle, resulting in them dying there. Luckily, female figs have the ability to break down a wasp carcass using an enzyme called ficin.
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