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Caterpillars mainly bred for fishing bait are capable of biodegrading plastic? As cool as it is crazy...
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, Apr 24 2017 5:18 PM
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#1 Offline - Posted April 24 2017 - 5:18 PM
https://phys.org/new...on-plastic.html
Totally blowing me away. Too bad wax worms are so ugly...but it might be cool to start a culture of them on plastic!
Totally blowing me away. Too bad wax worms are so ugly...but it might be cool to start a culture of them on plastic!
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#2 Offline - Posted April 24 2017 - 6:55 PM
A couple years ago at UC Davis they found that tenebrionidae mealworms can eat and digest styrofoam.
http://ucanr.edu/blo...?postnum=19635
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#3 Offline - Posted April 25 2017 - 7:07 AM
No way... I wonder if we can use these to help clear off huge amounts trash?
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