Tenebrio molitor

A film for AR Ammons author of Garbage A Poem 1993 and baculovirologist Lois Miller 10 quintillion insects live on the planetthat is 300 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh They drive decomposition dissolution and decay that makes way for the new Specifically darkling beetle larvae Tenebrio molitor roughly translated as death spirits and millers better known as yellow mealworms are capable of digesting Styrofoam by way of their gut microbiome biodegrading the plastic waste into carbon and hydrogen Their lives run counter to ours which revolve around accumulation and accretion