an insect's colorful gift, treasured by kings and artists

12/3/2017

Brief overview of the history of the color red and the influential role of the cochineal beetle. Click on the photo for a link to the article.

3 Comments

Kris

12/4/2017 01:38:54 pm

The use of cochineal still amazes me. Who discovered that if you ground up the female scale insect under the prickly pear cactus, you'd get such an incredible color!

Lorraine Reyes link

3/17/2022 05:55:00 pm

Nice article! Thanks for sharing this informative post. Keep posting!

Allan Kim link

3/17/2022 05:56:41 pm

Thanks for sharing this useful information! Hope that you will continue with the kind of stuff you are doing.

an insect's colorful gift, treasured by kings and artists

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