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In my experience, common clothes moth[1] or its larvae is also capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs or cereal. Not sure if they're a
by myegorov 9y ago
In my experience, common clothes moth[1] or its larvae is also capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs or cereal. Not sure if they're actually digesting it or could survive on the polyethylene diet though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tineola_bisselliella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tineola_bisselliella
- eric_h 9y agoThis is somewhat orthogonal to your point, but my cats are also perfectly capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs (left a sealed bag of cat treats on the counter one day, found it chewed through and empty the next). It does seem likely to me, however, that the number of insect species capable of eating through plastics and also breaking the plastic molecules down must surely number greater than one.