Resumen de Plastic-loving grubs could eat up our rubbish
Caterpillars might hold the key to the growing problem of plastic waste. While removing caterpillars from beehives, researchers in Spain have chanced upon one type that seems to have a taste for the stuff. The team found that a hundred caterpillars of the Galleria mellonella moth can riddle a bag with holes in under an hour, or consume 92 milligrams of plastic in half a day--just over 3 percent of a supermarket shopping bag. That's fast considering it takes at least 100 years for a bag to decompose naturally, says team member Federica Bertocchinl at the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria.
