Why Do Mealworms?

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Styrofoam is a lightweight and buoyant plastic that is very dangerous, it is also almost unrecyclable and it causes an enormous pollution problem, even that it is such an enormous problem it can be solved by such a tiny thing, and they’re called mealworms. Mealworms can consume 34-39 milligrams in 24 hrs without getting hurt because of a certain bacteria in their guts that allows the styrofoam to be healthy for them. Scientists hope to find mealworms aquatic equivalent so the mealworms can eat all of the styrofoam on land and in the water. Wax worms are another source of styrofoam depollution because they have the same characteristics as the mealworm and the wax worm evolves into a indian meal moths which travel faster and do the same thing.

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