Not anything I would ever use in my garden.

kimmq is kimmsr

Nevermore, that is interesting. I'm not going to put it to the test, though. Seems cruel to the mealworms and I wouldn't for a minute call the finished product compost.

I can't find the original article I saw this on .. but it was a bit more elaborate then this one. It talked more about their waste being completely composted by the bacteria in their gut. Even giving antibiotics to a test group to clean their guts... and their waste ended up being just chewed up styrofoam. It also talked about the health of mealworms fed just styrofoam was just as good as ones feed typical food. And their offspring was also just as healthy.

Not that I am going to test this in my compost bin... but it would be interesting to see it happen regardless.

Part 1

Part 2

The references to the original study are linked at the end of the article Nevermore cited.