Journal of insect physiology
Urban substrates alter the nutritional composition of an emerging model insect, Tenebrio molitor.
Rory Lockett, Milena Figueiredo de Sousa, Katherine A Nicoluzakis, Arianne Cease, Karen L Sweazea
Published: 202510.1016/j.jinsphys.2025.104892
Abstract
Although mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) typically consume grains, studies reveal they also consume decaying plant matter, animal waste, and even plastics. The goal of this work was to study mealworms as an emerging model organism to understand how feed…
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