7/15/2023 0 Comments Download raising superworms![]() ![]() The mealworms are able to do this due to their gut bacteria (Exiguobacterium sp. Tests confirmed that the polystyrene was mineralized to CO2 and incorporated into lipids. Fed with Styrofoam as the sole diet, the larvae lived as well as those fed with a normal diet (bran) over a period of 1 month… Within a 16 day test period, 47.7% of the ingested Styrofoam carbon was converted into CO2 and the residue was egested as fecula with a limited fraction incorporated into biomass. The Styrofoam was efficiently degraded in the larval gut within a retention time of less than 24 h. Mealworms (the larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus) from different sources chew and eat Styrofoam, a common PS product. Polystyrene (PS) is generally considered to be durable and resistant to biodegradation. Here’s the Abstract from the 2015 Stanford study: ![]()
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