A mealworm's magnified face reveals expressive "eyes" and mouthparts. Mealworms are the larval form of the mealworm beetle and are commonly used as high-protein feed for animals.

Despite their ecological and nutritional benefits, mealworms still face a challenge that prevents them from readily finding their way into meals: the ick factor. Customers are just grossed out by ...

It would take 100 mealworms 138 days, or about 4.5 months, to eat just one disposable COVID-era face mask, ecologist Michelle Tseng and colleagues calculate December 4 in Biology Letters. Science ...

UBC researchers fed mealworms ground-up face masks mixed with bran and found that the bugs excreted a small fraction of the microplastics consumed. Alex Walls. Dec 4, 2024. Mealworms feast on bran and ...

Would you like some meaty, savory mealworm powder seasoning with your food? It’s a question you might soon be hearing at the dinner table, or at least that’s the hope of scientists at South ...

The fearless ones savored grubs, mealworms and crickets as ingredients in fried rice, grits, breads and ice cream. Some greedily popped handfuls of toasted mealworm carcasses into their mouth.

Despite their ecological and nutritional benefits, mealworms still face a challenge that prevents them from readily finding their way into meals: the ick factor. Customers are just grossed out by ...

In a new Biology Letters paper, UBC zoologist Dr. Michelle Tseng and alumna Shim Gicole tested mealworms in a more realistic scenario, feeding them ground-up face masks -- a common plastic product ...