Answer 1:
That's amazing. I didn't know mealworms could
eat Styrofoam. I know there are microbes that can
eat oil spills in the ocean, but at least the oil
is a liquid. Thanks for letting me know about the
mealworms.
Indeed, researchers at Beihang University in
Beijing China and at Stanford University in
California discovered this. Here's a news link
about it:
digesting plastics
There are microbes in the mealworms' guts
that digest the Styrofoam to produce Carbon
Dioxide and a little bit of solid waste
['poop'].
The mealworms that ate Styrofoam grew as well
as the mealworms that ate their normal diet, which
was bran. Scientists used to think Styrofoam and
polystyrene couldn't be biodegraded. This is an
exciting discovery.
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