Excerpt - page 104: "... The insects themselves are tiny. Co- chineal ... crushed them to produce dye. Cochineal was a major Mexican export until roughly 1875, when synthetic ..."
Excerpt - Front Matter: "... such as silk, honey, wax, and a red dye called cochineal, and we use them to study genetics and evolution. Insects have a skeleton on the outside of the body so ..."
