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Australian scientists have found the Zophobas morio - commonly known as a superworm - can survive on a diet of polystyrene. They believe the beetle larvae digest the plastic through a gut enzyme.

“A week later, we found about four pounds of very dead, oozing, stinky, superworm larvae in our mailroom,” said Pénzes. Although she had a hunch that a virus might be to blame for the mass die-offs, ...