Aldo Tovar, Marisela Pando-Moreno, Celina Garza, Evaluation of Three Varieties of Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller as Hosts of the Cochineal Insect Dactylopius coccus Costa (Homoptera: Dactylopiidae) ...

Dactylopius coccus was the source of a red dye used by Aztecs and Mexican Indians for centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards. Those indigenous peoples would collect cochineal insects ...

Some of them are there on purpose. One of the best known is cochineal, a red color additive derived from a scale insect called, appropriately, the cochineal scale (Dactylopius coccus).

Object Details maker Lloyd Brothers Description This specimen is one of approximately 187 specimens of materia medica (crude drug material) representing plants introduced and employed by physicians of ...