MTGZone
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to science@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

phys.org

external-link
message-square
25
fedilink
122
external-link

Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

phys.org

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to science@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
message-square
25
fedilink
There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects that have been found to be capable of breaking the polluting plastic down, though this is the first time that an insect species native to Africa has been found to do this.
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    There are adapted ground bacteria in tar pits, eating tar.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_pit#Living_organisms

science@lemmy.world

science@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !science@lemmy.world

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 431 users / day
  • 2.46K users / week
  • 3.1K users / month
  • 10.1K users / 6 months
  • 6 local subscribers
  • 18.6K subscribers
  • 2.01K Posts
  • 18.6K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.world
  • Joleee@lemmy.world
  • laverabe@lemmy.world
  • DeadPand@midwest.social
  • laverabe@lemmy.zip
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org