EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus (Coccus cacti) on a prickly pear cactus, Opuntia species. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1840.
EditorialBrown soft scale, Coccus hesperidum (Lecanium ficorum) on a leaf. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1840.
EditorialFarmers harvesting cochineal beetles, Dactylopius coccus, from Opuntia cochenillifera cactus and roasting and drying the insects to prepare carmine dye, Mexico, circa 1800. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Pict...
EditorialCochineal cactus or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica, with cochineal beetle, Dactylopius coccus. Kermes beetle, Kermes vermilio, with Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch f...