Wax worms can eat through plastic bags. No one's quite sure how yet, but the finding is an exciting one that comes through unconventional means. Federica Bertocchini is a biologist at Spain's ...

Wax worms are more popular with ice anglers than open-water fishermen, but there are plenty of guys who like bee moth larvae in warmer weather, too. Now there’s a new product on the market that is ...

A chunk of plastic after 10 worms spent about 30 minutes feasting. (Credit: CSIC Communications Department) A caterpillar that can eat plastic and produce an industrially useful compound while doing ...

Scientist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini picked parasitic wax worms from the honeycomb of her beehives and left them sitting in a plastic bag. When she returned to the bag, it was riddled ...

A research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Federica Bertocchini, has discovered that wax worms (Galleria mellonella), which usually feed on honey and wax from the honeycombs ...

WASHINGTON — Two substances in the saliva of wax worms – moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs – readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a ...

Two substances in the saliva of wax worms — moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs — readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance ...

Plastic pollution may have met its unlikely match: the saliva of wax worms. In a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers discovered that enzymes in the saliva of wax ...

Could wax worms help tackle plastic pollution around the world? Plastic pollution has long been a big problem across the world but scientists think they may have found an unlikely hero who could help.