Watch larva devour a pizza in 2 hours

Rumble — Watch a maggot ‘fountain’ devour waste food. Findings could help grub farmers using human food waste to produce larvae-based chicken feed.

Read more - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/watch-maggot-fountain-devour-pizza-2-hours

Read the paper - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0735

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Shishkov and Hu, Georgia Tech

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