As with many scientific discoveries, learning about the useful and unexpected eating habits of the larval stage of the Greater Wax Moth Galleria mellonella can be chalked up to serendipity.

A solution to the plastic pollution problem might exist within the eating habits and digestive machinations of Galleria mellonella, also known as the ‘great wax moth.’ It was discovered—by ...

L'Infection microbienne et l'immunité chez la mite des abeilles, Galleria Mellonella. (Monographies de l'lnstitut Pasteur.) Par S. Metalnikov. Pp. iv + 139. (Paris: Masson et Cie., 1927.) ...

Wax moth (Galleria mellonella) caterpillars live in beehives, feeding on honey and wax. Paolo Bombelli and Christopher Howe at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Federica Bertocchini at the ...

According to a new study in Biology Letters, the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) is capable of hearing frequencies up to 300,000 hertz (300kHz), which is 15 times the frequency humans can ...