Microbe

Michele Swanson, Gemma Reguera, Moselio Schaechter, ... [et. al.]

2nd ed.

Washington, DC : ASM Press, cop. 2016

p. 558

In 2015, a group of scientists reported that waxworms (also known as Indian mealmoths, the larvae of Plodia interpunctella) could feed on a diet of polyethylene, the plastic that makes the Styrofoam^TM material of hot beverage cups and insulation materials.

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