Mealworms can eat and absorb plastic, offering potential insights for reducing pollution. Plastic pollution pervades ...

and scale up these learnings to address plastic pollution. "Perhaps we can start viewing bugs as friends. We're killing millions of insects every day from general pesticides -- the very same ...

Dr. Tseng says the next step will be to learn from the insects’ digestive mechanisms how to break down microplastics, and scale up these learnings to address plastic pollution. “Perhaps we can start ...

and scale up these learnings to address plastic pollution. "Perhaps we can start viewing bugs as friends. We're killing millions of insects every day from general pesticides—the very same ...

There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects that ...

There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects that ...

She put the beeswax-loving pests in a plastic bag, later finding they had chewed their way out. Intrigued, she and [Paolo Bombelli] ran some experiments using the bugs. They showed the mechanism ...

The team of laboratory workers are busy collecting the eggs laid by thousands of bugs in large plastic containers. They have to shake and brush away the insects, which scurry quickly to and fro ...