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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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#1 Offline Subverted - Posted April 24 2017 - 5:18 PM

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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!
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#2 Offline fortysixandtwo - Posted April 24 2017 - 6:55 PM

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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 Alabama Anter - Posted April 25 2017 - 7:07 AM

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No way... I wonder if we can use these to help clear off huge amounts trash? 


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