Abstract
The percent seeds killed by pollinating agaonid wasps and their associated parasitic Hymenoptera in 4 spp., of Costa Rican deciduous forest fig trees [Ficus obtusifolia, F. cotinifolia, F. hondurensis and F. ovalis] averaged 41-77% in 9 samples. No fig fruits lost less than about 25% of their seeds to predation, and it was commonplace for more than 80% of the seeds to have been preyed on in a fruit. One tree''s crop was sufficiently asynchronous that wasps leaving the early-maturing figs could have entered much younger figs receptive at that time; in this case, the later-maturing, and perhaps in part self-pollinated, fig crop had fewer seeds per fig and a higher percent seed predation.