I have been concerned for sometime now about bioworms used as insectides during agriculture. These worms are resistant to poisons sprayed on crops; thus, there are millions of egg laying critters getting into the food chain that are consumed by us. I've concluded that this is a component to the resistant factor for those who are fighting this problem. I've written about this in some other posts of mine.

I've also come across some other articles suggesting that bioworms may be a larger problem. Scientists are messing with nature in some scary ways. When you read enough articles you can put the puzzle pieces together, and what I'm finding is not good!

I always wash new clothing that I purchase from stores because of their dyes. However, washing clothes may have another added benefit especially when they have been manufactured in China.

This is a story that someone encountered about bioworm in clothing who journaled their findings. "Diary of a parasite sufferer"
http://www.safe2use.com/pests/scabies/gettingridof/030.htm


I found the below on a biology site. This could be a bioworm problem.

INSECT/ parasite FOUND IN CLOTHING!

HELP!!! Does anyone know what this is? Can you help me research this pest?
I've been searching the internet and writing people for several weeks. Yet I haven't been able to find information on this pest. So it must be something new.

People are contracting a tiny white insect or parasite from clothing of retail stores or other people. This pest is neither a mite nor a flea. It's not lice. It looks like fiber or thread. Yet it's not affiliated with Morgellons or Fibre Disease.

Please pay close attention as I describe the physical attributes and symptoms of this pest. If someone has this pest, they will see 3 types of White things:
1) tiny round things about the size of a spec of salt; some are a little larger
2) tiny, oblong shaped, things that look like a piece of thread or fiber; varies in length from 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch long (It grows.) **It unfolds itself to fly. It crawls also.
3) slightly larger round white things that jump.
I see #1 and #2 most often.

If someone has this pest, they will have the following physical symptoms:
1) Bites that sting
2) Red skin rashes and/or small red bumps
3) Lighting sensations; Victims will feel the pest or its eggs lighting on their skin.
4) Optional: Itching **I don’t itch, but another victim has an itching problem.
Entomologists, Health Departments, medical doctors, and pest control companies aren’t familiar with this pest. Some professionals will claim there’s no such thing. Therefore, it's difficult for pest victims to get help. **This pest is not related to Morgellon/Fibre Disease.

If you have any information on this pest or if you know anyone who is infested with it, please write me at: twfparasite(at)yahoo(dot)com (Use the “at” symbol and period.) Thanks for your time and assistance.


Given the above reading, I now wonder if this will be come an esculating problem. Here's another story that is completely insane by implanting spider genes into silkworms and goats for silkier milk protein!


China implants spider genes into silkworms
8 Nov 2000
By David Rennie in Beijing

THE centuries-old silk industry faces a revolution after Chinese genetic engineers said yesterday that they had successfully implanted spider genes into silkworms.

Mass-produced spider-strength silk could be used in bullet-proof jackets and parachutes as well as for ordinary clothes, scientists in Shanghai said. Dr Lu Changde, of the Chinese Academy of Science's Shanghai Institute for Biochemistry, said his team had succeeded in producing silk containing spider genes after four years' work, though the resulting silk still required fine tuning.

He said: "We have successfully implanted the gene that makes spider silk viscous into the fertilised eggs of silkworms. There are still many difficulties to overcome, but we have solved the most difficult problem." The scientists still have to prevent the silk from turning yellow and to make it strong yet soft enough to wear.

Teams elsewhere in China – which has embraced genetic engineering with enthusiasm and few restrictions – last year boasted that they had placed rabbit genes in cotton plants, producing cotton fibres "as soft as rabbit hair".



Thursday, 17 January, 2002, 19:59 GMT
Spider scientists spin tough yarn
By BBC News Online's Ivan Noble

A Canadian company has successfully mimicked nature and produced spider silk, a coveted substance five times stronger - weight for weight - than steel.

"It feels like silkworm silk," Nexia Biotechnologies chief executive officer Jeffrey Turner told BBC News Online. "It's lustrous, it's flexible and it has a wonderful combination of toughness and strength."

Spiders make their silk naturally as a water-soluble protein which they then force through a tiny hole in their bodies, spinning it out as a thread.

Nexia scientists put spider genes in mammal cells to make their version of the silk. The company now has genetically modified goats that will produce the protein in their milk.

Military interest
Spider silk has the perfect qualities for making products like body armour, medical sutures and biodegradable fishing lines. The problem for Science has been finding a way to produce it in industrial quantities.

The US army has been interested in the substance since the 1960s, after substantial numbers of soldiers were killed in Vietnam by high-velocity bullets.

Silk, Nexia Biotechnologies
Only heavy, cumbersome, body armour offers any protection at all against such bullets, and the army discovered spider silk would be an ideal material for making lighter, tougher armour.

"People said 'Why don't we farm them like we do with gregarious vegetarian silkworms?'," said Dr Turner. "But spiders are territorial carnivores. They just aren't suited to farming."

"Put 10,000 of them in a room and a week later you'd have one mean-looking one left."

The US Army and the Canadian Department of National Defense worked together with Nexia on the spider silk project.

Gene transplants
Scientists have for years been putting spider genes into various more-friendly organisms to try to get them to produce the precious silk.

Dr Turner said other companies drew a blank when they tried yeast and bacteria, or ended up with silks that were not spinable or strong enough.

In the end, Nexia's scientists succeeded with the aid of laboratory cells originally taken from cows and hamsters. Dr Turner said that they had set out to prove that copying nature was possible and had ended up completing the whole process of synthesising spider silk.

"We've taken spider genes... we've made authentic water-soluble proteins. We've done what the spider does and dehydrated them and pushed them out through a tiny hole."

The researchers now want to make larger quantities of their silk using milk from a herd of goats carrying the spider genes. These genetically modified animals have been bred from a pair that made their first public appearance in August 2000.

The daughters of the original pair are now pregnant with their own offspring and Dr Turner hopes the enlarged herd will soon be helping Nexia turn out useable quantities of spider silk yarn.

Nexia's research is published in the journal Science.