Each year, humans make some 400 million tonnes of plastic ... But those contained in the saliva of the wax worm moth – Galleria mellonella – can act in only a few hours, the research showed ...

Federica Bertocchini at the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research and her colleagues have isolated unique, plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents ...

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common insect Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) from honeycombs in her ...