Eupristina verticillata
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Alien:
Obnoxious sight of fallen and squished figs on sidewalks [...] Slippery pedestrian crossings and sidewalks due to fallen, mature figs [...] Fallen, squished and decomposing figs in Limassol marina, grown due to the pollination of F. microcarpa by E. verticillata covered the sidewalks and pedestrian crossings. These mature, succulent figs made surfaces slippery and dangerous to walk given the close proximity of the trees to main roads (Figure 17). Although the municipality took care of their cleaning in the following weeks, these practices increase labour costs paid by taxpayers. During fieldwork in late spring, minute wasps and flies irritated the author entering his nostrils and eyes (Table 14). These incidents were rare and tallied with periods of mass-emergnece of NPFWs (Demetriou 2021).
Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)
Demetriou J, Koutsoukos E, Mavrovounioti N, Radea C, Arianoutsou M, Roy HE, Compton SG, Martinou AF (2023) A rather unfruitful relationship? Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the alien invasive Ficus microcarpa in Cyprus. BioInvasions Records 12(2): 573-580. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2023.12.2.20