{"id":140531,"date":"2022-06-13T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-discover-superworms-that-can-survive-on-eating-just-styrofoam"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:03:26","slug":"scientists-discover-superworms-that-can-survive-on-eating-just-styrofoam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-discover-superworms-that-can-survive-on-eating-just-styrofoam","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover \u201cSuperworms\u201d That Can Survive on Eating Just Styrofoam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-superworms-that-can-survive-on-eating-just-styrofoam2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how these things would interact with the anaerobic fungi that can surivive off of straight plastics. Do you think they\u2019d be homies?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how these things would interact with the anaerobic fungi that can surivive off of straight plastics. Do you think they\u2019d be homies? Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}