Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms

Worm's saliva found to break down plastic in major pollution breakthrough, Climate News

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Natural solutions that go 'chomp' - to eat their way through your plas – Twizzle Designs

Natural solutions that go 'chomp' - to eat their way through your plas – Twizzle Designs

StrangeScience - Mt Lions are eating Wild Donkeys, Scientist say its OK

Researchers propose new structures to harvest untapped source of freshwater. It's capable of capturing water vapor from above the ocean and condensing it into fresh water and do so in a manner

Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms

Humble' worm saliva can break down tough plastic

Wax Moth - What Is It Good For? - Wokingham & District Beekeepers Assocciation

Lowly wax worm's saliva may boost fight against plastic pollution - The Weather Network

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Wax worm saliva could potentially help solving our plastic problem

Architecture, construction, retention, and repair of faecal shields in three tribes of tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae: Cassidini, Mesomphaliini, Spilophorini)

Wax worm saliva and the enzymes therein are the key to polyethylene degradation by Galleria mellonella