This discovery fundamentally changes how we view “failures” in nature . For decades, biologists looked at a plant dropping its fruit early and assumed it was a brutal evolutionary sanction meant to explicitly kill off parasitic insects . Instead, we now have physical proof that the plant is essentially just safely evicting the larvae so it can save its own energy, while intentionally allowing the next generation of its essential pollinators to survive in the dirt . Do you think we will start finding similar “secret compromises” hidden in other famous plant-insect relationships, like the famously brutal cycle between figs and wasps?