An interesting fact about mealworms and superworms is that they can naturally break down and consume polystyrene, better known at Styrofoam. Polystyrene takes about five hundred years to be broken down naturally and is one of the major classes of plastic contributing to global warming, as well as air and water pollution when incinerated. In a recent experiment, scientists discovered that mealworms and superworms have certain microbes in their digestive tract that gives them the ability to digest polystyrene without harmful effects. This groundbreaking discovery has huge potential as a viable solution to help mitigate the issue of our ever-increasing amount of Styrofoam.