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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 413411" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Did you look at the link? They're investigating all sorts of therapeutic uses (including feeding them antibiotics so the silk can be used for topical wound application) but even just the dying option is apparently a breakthrough because it is more environmentally friendly, it gives a better product and saves on labour costs.</p><p></p><p>I love the idea of fluorescent silkworms...</p><p></p><p>Whatever they feed the silkworms, it needs to be something inert to the silkworm that is excreted. Because silk is as much a waste product as pretty much anything else that comes out of an animal's body. With a lot of invertebrates, the colours of the animal's shell or whatever, is a by-product of their own wastes. Stink bugs excrete a mix composed of a lot of the citrus oils they have ingested and which they need to get rid of, so they spray it in defence.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 413411, member: 1991"] Did you look at the link? They're investigating all sorts of therapeutic uses (including feeding them antibiotics so the silk can be used for topical wound application) but even just the dying option is apparently a breakthrough because it is more environmentally friendly, it gives a better product and saves on labour costs. I love the idea of fluorescent silkworms... Whatever they feed the silkworms, it needs to be something inert to the silkworm that is excreted. Because silk is as much a waste product as pretty much anything else that comes out of an animal's body. With a lot of invertebrates, the colours of the animal's shell or whatever, is a by-product of their own wastes. Stink bugs excrete a mix composed of a lot of the citrus oils they have ingested and which they need to get rid of, so they spray it in defence. Marg [/QUOTE]
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