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    include: Dactylopius austrinus Dactylopius bassi Dactylopius ceylonicus Dactylopius coccus – true cochineal Dactylopius confertus Dactylopius confusus...
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    Cochineal (redirect from Dactylopius coccus)
    KOTCH-ih-NEEL, -⁠neel, US also /ˌkoʊtʃɪˈniːl, ˈkoʊtʃɪniːl/ KOH-chih-; Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which...
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    Dactylopius opuntiae, also known as the prickly pear cochineal, is a species of scale insect in the family Dactylopiidae. Dactylopius opuntiae was first...
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    is commonly harvested from an American species scaled insects called Dactylopius coccus (or cochineals). Cochineals are parasitic scaled insects which...
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  • candy, gelatin, meat, and beverages including fruit juices. Female Dactylopius coccus (cochineal) insects were used for their red coloring power as...
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    Chavez-Moreno, Ck; Casas, A; Tecante, A (2009). "The Opuntia (Cactaceae) and Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) in Mexico: a historical perspective of use...
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    including: Carmine, also known as cochineal, where carminic acid from the Dactylopius coccus insect is mixed with an aluminum salt to produce the dye; Crimson...
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    composition, and waist circumference when compared to the placebo group. Dactylopius coccus is a scale insect from which cochineal dye is derived. D. coccus...
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  • therapy, research, saliva, pets Captive-bred 7b Annelida Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) 700–500 BCE Chile, Peru, Mexico dye Very common in the wild 6b...
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    how to declare when it has been added to a product. The scale insect Dactylopius coccus produces the brilliant red-coloured carminic acid to deter predators...
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    their lives. Pigments are often derived from the female cochineal of the Dactylopius family which are crushed to make red colors. Salasca women wear a woolen...
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    NZOR: 141a3030-1feb-44ab-bfc8-ca6c8afde487 Open Tree of Life: 332944 WoRMS: 990766 Dactylopius longispinus Wikidata: Q109661925 CoL: 33W9Z GBIF: 2095291...
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    Cochineal, also called carmine, made with crushed insects of the family Dactylopius coccus. Pink is the color most commonly associated with sweet tastes...
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    ISBN 9781139464857. Ramírez-Puebla, S. T. (2010). "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) and identification of the symbiotic bacteria"...
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    caramelized sugar Carmine (E120), a red dye derived from the cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus Elderberry juice (E163) Lycopene (E160d) Paprika (E160c) Turmeric/curcumin...
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  • He included one species: F. virgata, which was initially described in Dactylopius and had been transferred to Pseudococcus. In 1929, Ryoichi Takahashi...
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    currently controlled biologically in Australia using the cochineal insect Dactylopius austrinus, and to a lesser extent by the larvae of two moths, Cactoblastis...
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    the plant, the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, and the scale insect Dactylopius. Between 1926 and 1931, tens of millions of cactus moth eggs were distributed...
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    coccids upon which they feed. These include Dactylopius (including Dactylopius longispinus, Dactylopius virgatus var. madagascariensis), Pseudococcus...
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    textiles in the Low Countries, England, France, Spain and Italy. Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect of Central and North America from which the...
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    control by the use of the Cactoblastis moth and a cochineal insect, Dactylopius opuntiae. In Sri Lanka it has overgrown a 30 kilometres (20 mi) long...
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  • (maguey worm) Atta mexicana (ant) Comadia redtenbacheri (mezcal worm) Dactylopius coccus females used as red food dye Eucheira socialis (Madrone butterfly)...
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    [citation needed] Armenian cochineal (Porphyrophora hamelii ) Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) Kermes vermilio Crimson (color) Mushak, Paul (June–July 1988)...
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    century the Old World Porphyrophora dyes were supplanted by dyes of the Dactylopius coccus cochineal species from the Americas, which could be harvested...
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    Merit medal. She is known for the study of the biology of the cochineal (Dactylopius coccus), an insect species used to create the red dye carmine. She was...
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  • and autumn they are predacious on cochineal mealy bugs of the genus Dactylopius, which feed on prickly pear. The larvae live singly in tunnels in the...
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    dye derived from cochineal (Dactylopius coccus), a scale insect of Central and North America. cochineal Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect...
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    status of Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae) and Dactylopius opuntiae (Cockerell) (Coccoidea: Dactylopiidae) in spineless Opuntia...
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    granarium, Schizaphis graminum, Phenacoccus solenopsis, Ferrisia virgata, Dactylopius opuntiae, Drosicha mangiferae, Amrasca devastans, Amrasca biguttula,...
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    dyestuffs such as carmine (also called cochineal). The scale insect Dactylopius coccus produces the brilliant red-coloured carminic acid to deter predators...
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