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A pound of chicken will set you back a couple bucks.

Ground beef, maybe $3 to $4 a pound.

But a pound of protein-rich dried mealworms could cost twice as much.

The price per pound of mealworm is still relatively expensive.

Juan A. Morales Ramos is a research entomologist with the

USDA in Stoneville, Mississippi, and he says that cost might be coming down. For eight years,

he and his team have selectively bred mealworms, which are the larvae of a type of darkling beetle.

Their goal was to breed larger and larger worms, and they succeeded in nearly doubling

the size of the larvae. But doubling up came with an evolutionary trade-off. Larger larvae had fewer

eggs, and their offspring weren't as hardy as the ancestral strain. Still, generations are shorter in the

worm world, meaning it's faster to experiment, and sequencing the genes of the selected strains might reveal new traits to breed for.

We may be able to produce a super line of mealworms that grow faster and larger and probably produce more eggs, hopefully.

The findings are in the Journal of Insect Science. The eventual goal here is to bring meal

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