The mealworm can be used in many different meals.

黄粉虫可以用于许多不同的食物搭配。

The eventual goal is to bring mealworms beyond fishing bait.

最终的目标是让面包虫发挥除鱼饵之外的作用。

So it would take 3 or 4,000 mealworms to eat this Styrofoam cup about a week.

因此，大约需要3到4000条大麦虫用一周才能吃掉这个泡沫塑料杯。

Could mealworms be the solution to the proliferation of plastic in the environment?

大麦虫能解决环境中塑料的扩散吗？

One of his foods is a prawn salad with yellow mealworms.

他的菜品之一是黄粉虫对虾沙。

" The price per pound of mealworms is still relatively expensive."

“一磅面包虫的价格仍然相对昂贵。”

Romani Narioan says it would take an extraordinary amount of mealworms to break all this down.

Romani Narioan教授表示，需要大量的大麦虫来分解这些物质。

So it's the energy from breaking down the plastic's polymer bonds that the mealworms are after.

所以大麦虫需要的是分解塑料的聚合物键所产生的能量。

It's hard to manipulate a tiny bat and a tiny mealworm, with tweezers that are bigger than everybody.

用比他们都大的镊子来操纵一只小蝙蝠和一只小黄粉虫是很难的。

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

但一磅富含蛋白质的干黄粉虫（俗称面包虫）的价格可能是牛肉的两倍。

That means that this mealworm is still a valuable food source which is great.

这意味着大麦虫仍然是一种很有价值的食物来源。

Mealworms are never happier than when munching their way through the kind of food that would make most people wrench.

如果粉虱每天机械地吃下让大多数都犯恶心的食物，粉虱也不会开心。

If you want to feed the Robins as well, you can put out mealworms, chunks of fruit, or even raisins for them.

如果你还想喂食它们的话，你可以放一些餐虫、水果块、甚至是葡萄干给它们。

The algae is harvested, dried and processed, and like mealworms, algae can also grow with a diet of waste products.

类收获了藻类，再进行干燥加工处理，并且像粉虱一样，藻类也能以废弃的产品为生。

While the mealworm may not look like something worth eating, it is in fact the larvae of the darkling beetle.

虽然黄粉虫看起来不像可入口的食材，但它其实是黑甲虫的幼虫。

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

八年来，他和他的团队一直在选择性地培育面包虫，这是一种拟步行甲虫的幼虫。

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

“我们也许能够培育出一种超级面包虫，使其长得更快更大，而且有望产出更多的卵。”

We found that mealworms, sort of tiny innocuous insects found pretty much everywhere, can eat and degrade a few different types of plastic.

我们发现大麦虫，一种几乎随处可见的无害昆虫，可以吃并降解几种不同类型的塑料。

Following the approval by EU states, an EU regulation authorizing dried yellow mealworms as a food will be coming soon.

有了欧盟各的决定，不久后，欧盟就将出台一项规定，允许将脱水面包虫作为食物出售。

For her, it's a question of scaling up and to do that she needed to understand how a mealworm does what it does.

对她来说，这是一个扩大规模的问题，为了做到这一点，她需要了解大麦虫是如何做到降解塑料的。