Plastic-Eating Critters and Bacteria Could Solve a Huge Environmental Issue

Image credit: Webby Webby via Shutterstock. Article by Sandy Ong. Inverse – September 2, 2023. Article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine.

On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s picturesque northern coast. One of the honeycombs “was plagued with worms,” says the amateur apiarist, referring to the pesky larvae of wax moths that have a voracious — and destructive — appetite. […]

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