Bob Fischer is on the board of the Insect Welfare Research Society and the Arthropoda Foundation. All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other ...

Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our area. This insect lives on nopal, prickly pear ...

The first Brussels Yarn Festival will take place at LaVallée in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on February 15 and 16, the event organiser announced in a statement on Wednesday. Sewing, knitting, embroidery, and ...

Since 2009, the prickly pear has been on Spain’s official list of invasive species. Cochineal – Dactylopius coccus – Cochinilla del Carmin – Detail of the degree of infestation of cochineal on a ...

The same erlose oligosaccharides were recognised in honeydew of the common scale insect Coccus hesperidum L., together with the pentamer of this series, maltosyl erlose, therefore recognising that ...

Conservationists credit a species of parasitoid wasp for keeping Wilkins’ Bunting birds alive Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a writer ...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by a Gram-negative coccus a facultative intracellular pathogen. Neurobrucellosis has an incidence rate of 3-7% among all patients with brucellosis, while ...

The insects, known as Dactylopius coccus, contain carminic acid that is used to produce cochineal dye, an intense, natural red pigment. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) Protected from the elements, cactus ...

JTA — As soon as news broke this week that the Food and Drug Administration was suspending federal testing of commercially produced milk, the Orthodox Union’s hotline lit up. The flood of ...

Starbucks will stop using a red food dye made from bugs, its president recently wrote in a blog post. Despite the attention Starbucks has received for using the insect-based dye in some of its ...