The larvae of Galleria mellonella, commonly known as a wax worm, is able to biodegrade plastic bags. People around the world use more than a trillion plastic bags every year. They're made of a ...

Of the 300 million tons of plastic produced globally each year, only 10 percent is recycled, according to the World Watch Institute. A chunk of the rest ends up polluting landfills and oceans, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...

In a world drowning in plastic waste, a surprising hero could be emerging: the wax worm. Biologist Federica Bertocchini, co-founder of the startup Plastic Entropy based in Reims, France, is leading ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)-- Even the smallest among us can be big heroes. Take the lowly wax worm, for instance. The larva of the greater wax moth is considered a huge pest in Europe, because it acts as a ...

Here’s a caterpillar that thinks plastic tastes fantastic. Scientists have discovered that the larvae of the wax moth will easily munch through a common plastic known as polyethylene, turning it into ...

An accidental discovery of a caterpillar that eats plastic could one day lead to the elimination of plastic waste, researchers hope. The fast-eating caterpillar known as Galleria mellonella, a wax ...

People around the world use more than a trillion plastic bags every year. They're made of a notoriously resilient kind of plastic called polyethylene that can take decades to break down. But the ...