Examples of mealworm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Last weekend, the center ran out, and volunteers scoured pet stores all over the city and rounded up three dozen mealworm tubs. — Jeffery Jones, National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020 Further research has now isolated the plastic-eating bacteria found in the mealworms' guts and grown them outside of the mealworm. — Ed Scott-clarke; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020 This isn't the first time scientists have leaned on polymer biodegradation to restore plastic products to their origin materials; mealworms have been known to chow down on polystyrene foam, and waxworms chew and eat polyethylene film. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2020 Inside the second box, a thousand mealworms wriggled over an egg crate. — Jason Plautz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019 Another study looked at chirp changes among two experienced mealworm-hunting bats. — Rebecca Boyle, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2014 According to the growers at Livin Farms, many compare mealworms to sunflower seeds, peanuts or pumpkin seeds. — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019 And Ynsect is not alone in its ambitions for mealworms. — The Economist, 4 July 2019 Hoping to get more insight into the results, the researchers trained chicks in the lab to associate images of either white-striped or yellow-striped frogs with bitter, unpalatable mealworms. — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019

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