Posts Tagged: mealworms
Trevor Fowles and Christian Nansen: Imagine Food Production Without Waste
Imagine food production without waste… Insects, such as darkling beetles and black soldier...
Doctoral student Trevor Fowles and major professor Christian Nansen are breeding insects to convert agricultural waste into usable products: 1) insect biomass, that can be fed to animals as a feed additive, used by the pharmaceutical industry, or used to produce biofuel, 2) insect frass and fragments from the bioconversion process can be used as soil amendment in high-value cropping systems, and 3) mushrooms can be grown on what the insects are unable to bioconvert.
Black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) in almond hull waste. (Photo by Trevor Fowles)
Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly) adults. (Photo by Trevor Fowles)
Harvested Tenebrio molitor (mealworms or larvae of darkling beetle). (Photo by Trevor Fowles)
Why These Mealworms Don't Miss a Meal
Several years ago you probably read about the Stanford researchers who discovered that...
Close-up of a mealworm on Styrofoam. This image was taken with a Canon MPE-65 mm lens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Trevor Fowles, a second-year doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, with his mealworms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mealworms eating Styrofoam in the Christian Nansen lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Graduate Student Scores EPA Grant Involving Mealworms and Styrofoam
Trevor Fowles' mealworms never miss a meal. Fowles, a second-year doctoral student in the UC Davis...
UC Davis doctoral student Trevor Fowles, shown here with his mealworms, won a $15,000 EPA grant for his project, "Beetle Larvae as Biodegraders of Styrofoam and Organic Waste." (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of mealworms eating Styrofoam.
In three weeks, the mealworms "ate three-fourths of a pound of Styrofoam (shown here), converting it into biodegradable waste," Trevor Fowles said.
Quick: What Critter Eats Styrofoam?
Quick question: What critter can chew and digest Styrofoam? Drum roll...Time's up... If you...
Entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer with his Recycling Man. Inside mealworms are chewing and digesting the Styrofoam. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Mealworms Making a Meal of Styrofoam
DAVIS--When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, hosts its...
UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer with his "Recycling Man" project. Inside, mealworms are munching on the styrofoam. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)