Two substances in the saliva of wax worms - moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs - readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance ...

Outlawed now in some places, or only available to tote your purchases at a ridiculous premium, the billions of “T-shirt” bags used every year present a serious waste management problem. Whether ...

The saliva of certain caterpillars has been discovered to break down the world's most common type of plastic. Mass producing the proteins in the saliva could provide a cheap and effective way to break ...

Plastic bag pollution may finally have met its match in the face of the moth larvae that infest beehives, known as wax worms. Scientists have discovered that enzymes in the worms' saliva rapidly break ...

Here’s a caterpillar that thinks plastic tastes fantastic. Scientists have discovered that the larvae of the wax moth will easily munch through a common plastic known as polyethylene, turning it into ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, report that the greater wax moth has the world’s most extreme hearing. The researchers determined that the moth can sense sound ...

If you were asked to select five insects that have most profoundly altered humanity since Homo sapiens first fashioned tools and harnessed fire, which insects would you choose? With 1.1 million ...

The ubiquitous greater wax moth is ordinary in every way but one: It has the ability to hear the highest-known sound frequency. The greater wax moth's hearing goes up to about 300 kilohertz, nearly ...

Since the pandemic, we are very aware of the power of social distancing to protect against infectious disease. But can social distancing be effective if the infectious agent isn’t a virus or bacterium ...

The ubiquitous greater wax moth is ordinary in every way but one: It has the ability to hear the highest-known sound frequency. The greater wax moth's hearing goes up to about 300 kilohertz, nearly ...