Scientists have discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and leaves behind antifreeze

The wax worm, a caterpillar typically used for fishing bait and known for damaging beehives by eating their wax comb, has now been observed munching on a different material: plastic bags.

Scientists have discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and leaves behind antifreeze HUVb7W

Scientists have discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and leaves behind antifreeze HUVb7W

Scientist Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain first noticed the wax worms’ plastic-eating skills when she was cleaning up a wax worm infestation in one of the beehives she keeps at home. She put the worms in a plastic bag, tied it closed, and put the bag in a room of her house while she finished cleaning the hive. When she returned to the room, “they were everywhere,” Bertocchini said in a statement. They’d escaped by chewing their way out of the bag, and fast.

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Scientists have discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and leaves behind antifreeze

Scientists have discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and leaves behind antifreeze

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