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Mealworms that had a Styrofoam-only diet began to eat each other to get nutrients. Mealworms that ate Styrofoam and chicken appeared healthy.

WSU student tests Styrofoam-eating mealworms as protein source

EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen news editor September 3, 2020

WSU master’s student Brenden Campbell began researching mealworms, a type of beetle larvae, for his Honors College thesis after he saw a Stanford research article showing mealworms can digest polystyrene,...

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