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The fig tree provides a site for wasp egg-laying, while the wasp pollinates the fig tree, making it a mutualistic relationship.
Ref: NCERT Class 12 Biology Chapter 11: Organisms and Populations Population Interactions - Mutualism and Amensalism
A wasp whose offspring develop inside one caterpillar and ultimately kill it is a parasitoid. The female selects a host and deposits eggs; larvae then consume host resources while often manipulating or suppressing host immunity. Death is usually delayed until larval development is complete, distinguishing parasitoidism from rapid predation and from ordinary parasitism, in which host death is not an inevitable requirement. Host specificity can reflect precise adaptations to host physiology, defenses, and life history. Mutualism and commensalism would not cause the caterpillar's eventual death.
Ref: Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems, Begon et al., 5th Ed., Ch. 8-13
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