Posts Tagged: 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.