There's so much history of conflict everywhere you go in Israel. Even so, it was surprising to see what looked like bullet pockmarks on so many of the Bauhaus apartment buildings along tony Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. Well, on closer inspection, those marks are really something else altogether. Turns out, the gracious trees that line the boulevard are fig trees that for many years after they were planted bore no fruit at all. But when somehow in the 1970s a special breed of fig-boring wasp found its way to Tel Aviv from India, whether by air current or suitcase, the trees were pollinated and fruit began to appear. And that's when the bats showed up. In case you didn't know, bats love figs. Those pockmarks? They're really brown shmears of bat guano. Thought you'd like to know.
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