"Mealworm beetles are storage pests that attack stored grain, but we noticed their presence at a chicken coop where plastic ...

confusum Jacquelin duVal, confused flour beetle; Tenebrio obscurus F., dark mealworm; Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel), merchant grain beetle; Cryptolestes pusillus (Schönherr), flat grain beetle; and ...

In a bid to lessen the harmful effects from conventional ways of disposing of plastics, scientists in Kenya have found a ...

Egypt once had the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world, but has now almost completely wiped out the liver attacking virus in less than 10 years. How did they do that?

Scientists may have discovered an unlikely ally in the fight against plastic waste: the lesser mealworm. Native to Africa but ...

A plastic-eating insect in Kenya may be a potential ally to join in the fight against plastic pollution. Scientists have […] ...

The Kenyan lesser mealworm, the larval stage of the Alphitobius darkling beetle, has demonstrated the ability to consume and break down polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam. In a monthlong ...