mites....or insects?

[Guest guest]

For the record? I'm not sure my fibermites are mites. When I am looking at the individual ones and not the large (1/4" long) cigar shaped colonies of babies (the ones that break apart into lots and lots of tiny cigar-shaped fiber babies) they only have six legs, I have never seen eight legs.

The same is true of the ball-shaped warrior fiber critters: six legs and in a constant state of pissed off. The teardrop shaped ones seem always to have their babies with them and I have watched through the microscope as one pulled a smaller one up and over the edge of a sheet on a lint roller that was slightly peeled up. I think those are nurses, but their bites are probably the worst of all the fiber critters. I think each of these sheds all those fibers when they must grow and they go through a pink naked REALLY ticked off stage where they are more vulnerable and very defensive. I never see the nurses with babies during this stage.

There are other life forms that may or may not be associated, but I think the reason the fiber critters, which I think of as the morgellons, are so good at eliminating any other critters that have "moved in" is that they are a colony, and work together like ants and bees. The teardrop ones seem to be the workers and the globe shaped ones the fighters. I'm not sure how the cigar shaped colonies that split into tiny (1/32") cigar fiber babies relate, or if they do. All they seem to have in common are the gray fibers (only the ant shaped and globular ones seem to take on bright fabric colors, the teardrops and cigar shapes ones seem always to be that same light warm gray color.

I'm not still doing microscopic research, and a single new revelation could change my entire theory, or enlighten it, I just don't have time to pursue that part of my life anymore. At one time I threw myself into the research thinking that nothing else would work, and that I would have to learn more about my enemy if I was to defeat it. However I lack the tools and the microbiologic research experience to continue much past the point I have. When I saw that others were in our community who do have that training and equipment, I was able to stop.

kajay