Cochineal insect

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Carmine red or cochenille is derived from scale insects on cacti.

Cochineal

With the food industry using ground-up South American cochineal bugs for colour, there has been an increase in patients diagnosed with allergies linked to its use.

Giant Scale Insect (Drosicha corpulenta), female form - very different from the previous male posted. Photo by John Horstman. This is the kind of scale insects I normally see and HATE as they're serious plant pests and are extremely difficult to get rid of. The horticulturist's nightmare (along with mealybugs, their close relative).

Ancient Dyes with Modern Roles Juana Gutiérrez Contreras has created over 200 colors of 100% natural dyes. @porfirio_gutierrez_y_familia practice sustainability by using regionally sourced materials and natural dyes such as pericón, tarragon, and cochineal. Cochineal is a parasitic insect that lives on nopal cactus. It is a very laborious process to cultivate and harvest cochineal for use in dyeing. 📸@jackiecole_

Are the red food colorants cochineal and carmine made from ground bugs?

Nopalea / Opuntia cochenillifera and cochineal insects

The Cochineal insect creates a red dye so incredible, Europe nearly went to war over it.

Cochineal dye has been around for centuries, although that probably doesn't decrease the gross-out factor a whole lot.

Dactylopius coccus - Mother (ventral) and child.

Don't let it bug you that this ingredient is found in some of today's most popular foods and beverages.

Just as I was introduced to Starbucks coffee-free Strawberries and Creme Frappachino, I learn that its lovely ballet pink color is not from the mix of deep ripe strawberries and luscious thick cream. Darn that I had to find out that a cactus feeding bug found in Central and South America is the mother of the color in Starbuck's pink drinks and desserts. Yum. Chopped cochineals.

Wool yarn being dyed with cochineal.

Victorian women looking to add a little color to their lips often turned to a scarlet pigment called carmine. The pigment itself comes from the cochineal, a parasitic insect native to South America and Mexico. Most commonly, the pigment is extracted by grinding the insect bodies into a fine powder and then boiling them in ammonia. While carmine is rather disgusting, the dye only poses a threat to those who are allergic to it.

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Pre-Hispanic peoples nurtured cochineal insects on prickly pear cactus, then extracted a crimson dye from the dried and crushed remains of the females. Preparing cochineal dye "José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737–99), Memoria sobre la naturaleza, cultivo, y beneficio de la grana, 1777" "José Antonio de alzate and ramírez ( 1737-99 ), memory about nature, culture, and the benefit of the grana, 1777"

Cochineal insect and Cochineal Nopal Cactus, 1787 by G.S. de la Haye - Buy Cochineal insect and Cochineal Nopal Cactus, 1787 Paper Art Print - The Huntington Print Shop - Custom Prints and Framing

Our soft spoken demonstrator shows us the magic of cochineal. An insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America through North America, this insect lives on cacti in the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. What a mouthful! What power!

Cochineal: it’s a bug AND a feature! | Bug Gwen