Beetle Larvae That Eat Styrofoam
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Can you feed a surfboard to beetle larvae? Turns out the answer is yes! Eddy Garcia joins us in his final episode to share how he’s able to use multiple organisms and systems to completely break a surfboard down into organic matter.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:03.0 | What's up? |
| 0:04.0 | What's... |
| 0:05.0 | What's... |
| 0:07.0 | What's up? |
| 0:08.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined |
| 0:17.5 | again for our final episode with Eddie Garcia. Eddie is the lead designer of Living Earth Systems and the founder and |
| 0:24.6 | executive director of Regenerative Education Centers, which again you can find that |
| 0:28.9 | at RE Centers.org. So we've we've gone over a lot of different things on our series here Eddie and I think it's pretty interesting to end with this one. |
| 0:37.0 | Kind of just maybe looking forward at the future of how natural systems and just going more in tune with nature can be a way of the future |
| 0:47.0 | instead of looking back towards, I guess, what people consider to be the past or an outdated way of doing things. |
| 0:53.4 | So this is a beetle larva that eats styrofoam, right? |
| 0:57.1 | Correct, it is. |
| 0:58.3 | Something similar to a mealworm known as a superworm found within the pet industry. |
| 1:03.0 | And it is the larval stage of this beetle. |
| 1:06.0 | This beetle can live for up to 15 years. |
| 1:08.0 | The larval lives for well over a year, |
| 1:12.0 | and it can eat massive amounts of styrofoam and break it down into organic |
| 1:17.2 | compounds. |
| 1:19.9 | There's a whole process of this and I want to let everyone know right off the bat. Do not let |
| 1:24.3 | the enthusiasm get ahead of the facts. It's very dangerous. It is not just the worms that eat |
| 1:29.8 | the styrofoam down and process it. It's a whole system that we've created. It involves |
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