#cochineal

[redstonebug]

I saw for the Gemcyt au that Lizzie and Joel's fusion was Rainbow Quartz and I love making SU fusions that are Iris Agate, so. Lizzie, Joel, and Jimmy fusion musings. Was aiming for their empires s1 vibes but it kind of ended up Foolish Gamers somehow.

Au and individual refs by @chrisrin

#gemcyt #mcyt #empires smp #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #solidaritygaming #jimmy solidarity #joel smallishbeans #cochineal #bug report

[cosmic-geologist]

tried some natural dyeing with cochineal and walnut hulls. initially came out more pink than the red i was aiming for, but adding some brown helped

#hand dyed #dyeing #natural dyeing #cochineal #crafts #yarn #typical nonsense

[humblegrub]

I just watched this video about the Mexican production of cochineal bugs (Dactylopius coccus), a scale insect from which the natural dye carmine is derived. The dye has been cultivated, traded, and used in North America since before European contact. This video focuses on the three producers who are left in Mexico.

They also mention a space dedicated to research and dissemination of scientific, cultural, and artistic knowledge of cochineal and other traditional natural dyes from the state of Oaxaca. It is called NOCHEZTLICALLI - Museo Ecológico de Grana cochinilla y Nopal. If I spoke any Spanish I would definitely travel to see it. Maybe I should start a bug-related travel destination list...?

You can also donate if you can't actually get out there - supporting Indigenous cultural practices in this every-changing world is critical.

#cochineal #cochineal bugs #carmine #red carmine #natural dyes #mexico #oaxaca #bug #bugs #bugblr #insect #insects #insect art #bug art #entomology #invertebrates #arthropods #insecta #Dactylopius coccus #hemiptera #please add other tags to get this seen! #Youtube #oc #found elsewhere and uploaded by me

[himorenart]

Prickly Pronghorns 🌵

bonus doodle of a pronghorn suffering from a Cochineal infection:

#himorenart #digital art #illustration #sketches #pronghorn #antelope #mexican pronghorns #fantasy creature #creature design #creature art #infection #cochineal #would this be considered as slight body horror?

[maddascanbe-blog]

I've had a few ideas for AVB characters meeting the MLB characters, and this is the first one that actually made it to paper. Featuring my Ladybug redesign!

#a vengeful butterfly #ladybug miraculous #marinette dupain cheng #Cochineal #miraculous fanart #miraculous fanfic #bruno madrigal

[jenfoundabug]

I discovered these interesting scale insects on my prickly pear cactus (opuntia).

It turns out these are cochineal insects (Dactylopius coccus), the source of the natural dye carmine. You can see some of this pigment in the third picture (purple splotch) where the bugs may have been injured. Carmine, aka crimson lake, is frequently found in cosmetics (blush and lipstick) and food (ice cream, yogurt, soft drinks, sausage, and candy). Farming these bugs began as early as 700 BC in South America, and carmine has been used by many indigenous cultures to dye textiles and create artwork.

While mature females are about 25% carminic acid, it still takes tens of thousands of them to produce one pound of pigment.

If I get enough of these, I may try making some dye myself XD

#cochineal #cochineal insects #scale insects #you’ve probably eaten bugs at some point #carmine #crimson lake #food additives #dye #nature #bugs #nature photography #biodiversity #animals #inaturalist #arthropods #entomology #insect appreciation #insects #dactylopius coccus #TIL #random facts #educational #interesting facts #opuntia #bugblr #eat bugs #nom nom nom #hemiptera #parasite

[keepingitneutral]

PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta !

Courtesy of Pantone Institute

#art #desin #colors #pantone #magenta #nature #2023 #18-1750 #viva #crimson red #shade #cochineal #dye #insect #history

[thepmmmwitchproject]

Manga Witches: Part Seven (Last part... for now!)

Here's the seventh part of the nameless manga witch series! This is the second half of witches that showed up in the climax battle of Tart Magica! This'll be the final part, though if anyone knows of any other unnamed witches that could be discussed, do comment below!!!

All of these witches were done alongside @honestlyboringperson!

I'll start off with Cochineal, the snail witch with a repulsed nature, it spends its days in the mirror, insulting the reflection in it. It detests its slimy visage, so it orders its familiar to tear off its skin, knowing that their true beauty is on the inside. The witch cannot feel pain, and powerful regeneration, making the familiars' duties pretty much pointless. As with any other snail, the best method to beat this witch is salt. Once the witch has dissolved, all that left will be a mysteriously beautiful skeleton.

Phiphi, the witch of tentacles with a searching nature, this witch lacks any sense aside from touch, so it wanders around, wriggling itself on everything. It's surprisingly passive for a witch… typically. If provoked, it will attack like any other, unfortunately, due to lack of sight, it may instead go against one of its own guiding familiars. This witch is looking for something she lost that only it knows, not even the familiars know what it is. Whether it be a lost sock, or a dear partner, it won't stop stumbling around until it can be found. The next witch discusses slight themes of sexual trauma, so warning beforehand.

Kore, the witch of lace, with a sullied nature. A witch whose surprisingly innocent for her size, she searches for a sweet love that can fit her standards, but all her familiars due is chase her around in a vicious manner, she then wallows in horror in her den until the next day, denying the last day's events with her beaming innocence.

Horloge, the clock witch. Her nature is awaiting. A witch who hopes she can stop being a magical girl since that caused her a lot of pain and brought a lot of despair to her days. Even though she's a witch, she still thinks she's a magical girl. Tick tock tick tock, her clock chimes like this and she awaits for a moment that will never come and she will continue to think that she is a magical girl, unless she is annihilated at this very moment. Apart from awaiting, if a magical girl is found, she will use the sharp needles that protrude from her body to kill said magical girl and give her a painless death, but only to later feel envy since is dead and she is not. This witch was written by @shitposterxdxdxd rather than me or @honestlyboringperson.

Fovea, the oculus witch. Its nature is falling in love at first sight. It can't help but fall in love with anything it see, it holds on to those it loves with its dreadfully tight appendages then it gets sad over its death of suffocation, and does it all over again.

William le Bel, the heraldry witch with a misleading witch. This witch has a strong and prideful outwards appearance, but in actuality is a tame coward. It worries day in and day in out over disappointing their forefathers. Despite its fearfulness, it's still quite strong with the powers it has inherited, so it's better for you to ease the witch's troubles and let it move on peacefully rather than taking it down like other witches.

Vassilyev, the hut witch with a with a cozy nature. She feeds visitors with soup and bread that little does she know is rotten to the core, and she warms their souls with blankets she lovingly knits, but they are heavy enough to crush them flat. She once was a warm house filled with memories but now she is empty, gathering dust, unaware of the suffering she causes to guests. She is devastated when her guests die and will not stop mourning them until a new victim arrive, she'll forget what she was even crying in the first place.

1889, the gramophone witch with a reminiscing nature. This witch is nostalgic of its past, though for this witch in this time period, the past for them is the future, for they were once a person who wished to explore time, and ended up in the wrong place in the right time. The witch plays ragtime music that causes victims to erupt into a dancing disease. The lore behind this last witch is that rather than being a meguca who resides in medieval France, it was a girl who time traveled from the late nineteenth century and ended up transported to the battlefield by Minou before being forced into becoming a witch, making end up in the wrong place in the wrong time. The name, 1889, comes from the year the girl traveled from.

#obscure witches #witch #madoka magica #tart magica #collab #cochineal #snail #phiphi #tentacle #kore #lace #fovea #oculus #vassilyev #hut #horloge #clock #william le bel #heraldry #1889 #gramophone

[xylinthia]

Designing some fae based on Bella and her origins. I've cobbled to gether what I call the nopal sprites, who eat the cochineal bugs. The little bugs are also used for body painting. They all have swallowtail wings of some variety, teal-ish spotted skin and cream colored hair. The butterfly photos I've used include: urania leilus, papilio cresphontes, & eurytides epidaus.

#xyliart #faerie #oc #sketch #digital #drawing #fairy #fae #sprite #fairy sprite #pixie #cochineal #nopales #swallowtail butterfly #butterfly #moth #character design #fantasy #fantasy character #fantasy art

[uwmspeccoll]

A Prickly Science Saturday

In an act of bio-espionage, the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville (1739-1780) snuck into Oaxaca, Mexico in 1777 for the express purpose of illegally gathering cochineal insects, highly valued for the scarlet dye that could be extracted from their scales, along with the nopal, or prickly pear (Opuntia) upon which they feed. He smuggled the insects and cacti to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) where he succeeded in establishing them. For his exploits, he was elevated to royal botanist with an annual stipend, but did not enjoy this station for long as he died two years later at the age of 41.

An account of his adventure and his success with cochineal was published in this two-volume set, Traité de la culture du nopal, in 1787 in Paris, Bordeaux (where it was probably printed), and Cap‑Français, Saint-Domingue (now Cap-Haïtien), with four hand-colored plates by the French botanist and botanical illustrator Guillaume Silvestre Delahaye.

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#Science Saturday #botany #biology #insects #cacti #cochineal #nopal #prickly pear #Opuntia #Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville #bio-espionage #Traité de la culture du nopal #Guillaume Silvestre Delahaye #hand-colored prints #hand-colored plates

[whencyclopedia]

Cochineal

Cochineal is a brilliant red dye extracted from the crushed bodies of parasitic insects which prey on cacti in the warmer parts of the Americas. The dye was an important part of trade in ancient Mesoamerica and South America and throughout the colonial era when its use spread worldwide. Even today, cochineal continues to be used in foodstuffs and cosmetics.

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#Cochineal #Textiles #Trade

[redstonebug]

where do these green men keep getting crowns

#mcyt #hc x dsmp #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #eret #dreamwastaken #georgenotfound #bdoubleo #rendog #inthelittlewood #bug report #cochineal #just a silly doodle thought that's been kicking around in my brain for a couple days #fascinating that this oddly specific plot point keeps happening

[taacabralstudio]

Cochineal

#naturalpigments #naturaldyer #naturaldyes #taacabralstudio #cochineal #color

[lesbianrustcohle]

i got to paint using ground cochineal insects today!

i meant to get a picture of the paints, but those four cups had lemon juice, water, baking soda, and borax added, respectively. the different pHs change the color of the cochineal powder from reddish-orange (acidic pH) to crimson (neutral pH) to beet-pink and deep purple (basic pH)

#cochineal #natural dyes #peabody museum of archeology and ethnology #harvard peabody museum #harvard museum of natural history #harvard museums of science and culture #hmsc

[joerojasburke]

Anatomical Angel

     L’ange Anatomique, by Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty, 1746

Unfastened avidly from each ivory button               of her spine, the voluntary muscles open virtuosities of red: Cinnabar                                    the mutagen, and carmine from cochineal               born between fog and frost, so many little deaths Buddhists refuse to wear                                    robes soaked in its thousands. Sunsets               of other centuries fade in galleries to ash. Red is fugitive: As the voice, the blow                                    of gravity along a nerve opening to an ache               the body can’t unhouse: As the carnation suffusing cheek and haunch like saucers                                    from the king’s porcelain rinsed in candlelight.               Gratuitous as the curl, the urn-shaped torso, the pensive, brimming gaze of pretty                                    post-coital thought she half-turns over one               excavated shoulder. As if to see herself in a mirror’s savage theater as elegy                                    to the attempt to fill an exhausted form,               to learn again the old ordeals of wound and hand and eye. To find the source of burning.

[Poem by Averill Curdy, published in Poetry (June 2006)]

#anatomy #anatomical illustration #jacques-fabien gautier dagoty #averill curdy #poetry #cochineal #carmine #red

[bumblebeeappletree]

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