A research team confirms biodegradation of polystyrene using darkling beetle larvae found in Korea. There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of ...

A new study from Australia shows that larvae of the darkling beetle can eat polystyrene — the material behind plastic foam. How 'superworms' could help solve the trash crisis A bunch of small but ...

Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary tale of one of Earth's ...

Darkling beetles are insects that are generally black in colour hide during the day and come out during the dark period to feed. They belong to the beetle family Tenebriondae and have been associated ...

An enormous plastic garbage island exists in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of the Korean Peninsula. The island, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is the result of 13 million ...