The Kermes vermilio on the oak tree Suzanne Tamar Dekel Kermes vermilio, used in the ancient world to produce red dye Dr. Naama Sukenik, Israel Antiquities Authority ...

A piece of the rare 3,800-year-old fabric, dyed with the oak aphid. The earliest evidence of red-dyed textiles using scale insects was discovered in the caves of the Judean desert. According to a ...

"In ancient times, the dye was produced from the female scale insect, which lives on the kermes oak tree (Quercus coccifera)," Dr Naʼama Sukenik, Curator of the Organic Material Collection at the ...

The most striking plant of the hill-slopes is the Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera), a shrub from 2 ft. to 6 ft. in height, with very stiff, prickly leaves, ...

Until the Spanish discovered cochineals in the New World, harvesting and crushing parasitic scale insects that live on oak trees was the predominate means of producing high quality red dye. Early ...