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But in a chance discovery a scientist and amateur beekeeper has found that waxworms have a taste for more than wax.
When Federica Bertocchini removed an infestation from one of her hives and put them in a plastic bag – the worms simply ate their way out.
‘I went back to the room where I had left the worms and I found that they were everywhere’ she said.
‘The bag was full of holes’.
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Source: Plastic-eating worms could help wage war on waste | Science | The Guardian