cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything from clothes to pottery. But it wasn't until more recently ...

But if you are a fiber arts person, you might have worked with the dye made from this insect. And if you have eaten a product that lists carmine as an ingredient, you have tasted it. Cochineal’s ...

baking soda in 1 cup of water (label “Baking Soda”). Set up three small cups or bowls as “dye pots.” Mark cups as “Cochineal Dye”, “Vinegar and Cochineal Dye,” and “Baking Soda and Cochineal Dye.” Add ...

and Mexico’s cochineal farms are disappearing. More from Big Business Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles ...

Adjust the details to match the level of your audience. You made your own colorful dye out of crushed bugs and water! The cochineal (koh-chin-eel) bug (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect that lives ...

cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything from clothes to pottery. But it wasn't until more recently ...