Finally, to see if the process can scale, the researchers showed that a homogenate of wax moth larvae could digest PE sheets. This could lead to an industrial process if the enzymes involved can ...

There are years I don’t harvest at all,” he says. What pests does he look out for? He says the sugar ant and wax moth larvae easily destroy the wax combs. “They tunnel and chew through combs, ...

“When we walked into the aspen stand in spring 2021, we realized there were thousands of egg masses — each egg mass contains 400 to 600 larva — and ... or spraying wax droplets containing pheromone to ...

They should be preserved where ever possible. Consider instead a wide range of foods normally sold for reptiles, such as crickets, locusts, giant mealworms, and wax moth larvae. Earthworms would also ...

A new species of moth was found in a home in south Wales after travelling thousands of miles in a photographer's boot bag.

It is believed two clearwing moths accidentally hitched a ride when they were still larvae inside a photographer’s boot bag, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana before ending ...

Scientists studying the two clearwing moths believe that the animals, while still larvae, had inadvertently latched on to a photographer's boot before ending up in Port Talbot. They were ...

Two clearwing moths appear to have hitched a ride when they were larvae, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana, South America, before ending up in Port Talbot. Three months later ...