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on cochineal insects. A nopal cactus farm for the production of cochineal is traditionally known as a nopalry. The two methods of farming cochineal are...56 KB (5,967 words) - 12:58, 12 May 2024
Opuntia (redirect from Prickly pear cactus)The cactus was also used as agricultural fencing and a feedstock for animals in times of drought, as well as in an attempt to establish a cochineal dye...60 KB (6,212 words) - 10:44, 29 April 2024
Spineless cactus in the Arabian Peninsula: adaptive behaviors and production performances. IX International Congress on Cactus Pear and Cochineal – "CAM...108 KB (12,412 words) - 04:50, 8 April 2024
Nopal (redirect from Cactus pad)Opuntia cacti (commonly referred to in English as prickly pear or tender cactus), as well as for its pads. The name nopal derives from the Nahuatl word...8 KB (856 words) - 01:47, 15 April 2024
Carminic acid (section Harvesting from cochineals)coccus (or cochineals). Cochineals are parasitic scaled insects which are abundantly found on their host plants, the prickly pear cactus native to Mexico...16 KB (1,500 words) - 00:07, 26 February 2024
Opuntia ficus-indica (redirect from Cactus juice)the Indian fig opuntia, fig opuntia, or prickly pear, is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant grown in agricultural economies...24 KB (2,737 words) - 21:49, 25 February 2024
grown in the area for the production of cochineal, an insect from which the natural dye carmine is derived. The cactus garden was created in 1991, the last...2 KB (189 words) - 20:22, 20 September 2023
Dactylopius (section Cochineal dye)commonly as cochineals, a name that also specifically refers to the best-known species, the cochineal (Dactylopius coccus). The cochineal is an insect...13 KB (1,403 words) - 14:39, 4 January 2024- Cochineal prickly pear is a common name which may refer to several species of cactus in the genus Opuntia including: Opuntia ficus-indica Opuntia monacantha...531 bytes (70 words) - 07:33, 27 February 2021
Dactylopius opuntiae, also known as the prickly pear cochineal, is a species of scale insect in the family Dactylopiidae. Dactylopius opuntiae was first...15 KB (1,871 words) - 08:05, 22 December 2023
A cactus fence is a hedge or fence made of closely spaced cactus plants, sometimes with barbed wire or wood interwoven with the cacti. Such fences are...2 KB (146 words) - 16:02, 22 January 2024
Opuntia aurantiaca (redirect from Jointed Cactus)aurantiaca, commonly known as tiger-pear, jointed cactus or jointed prickly-pear, is a species of cactus from South America. The species occurs naturally...2 KB (171 words) - 05:28, 13 December 2023
Opuntia cochenillifera (category Cactus stubs)Opuntia cochenillifera. Plants Profile for Opuntia cochenillifera (cochineal nopal cactus) Opuntia cochenillifera - Species Page - ISB: Atlas of Florida Plants...2 KB (161 words) - 16:48, 1 February 2024
they move to the edge of the cactus pad where the wind catches the wax filaments and carries the tiny larval cochineals to a new host. Many sessile animals...4 KB (472 words) - 04:15, 24 April 2024
Cactoblastis cactorum (redirect from Cactus moth)Cactoblastis cactorum, the cactus moth, South American cactus moth or nopal moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. It is...32 KB (3,870 words) - 19:33, 20 December 2023
Opuntia monacantha, commonly known as drooping prickly pear, cochineal prickly pear, or Barbary fig, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae native...3 KB (333 words) - 04:56, 10 July 2023
Opuntia stricta (redirect from Cactus strictus)Opuntia stricta is a species of large cactus that is endemic to the subtropical and tropical coastal areas of the Americas, especially around the Caribbean...10 KB (1,104 words) - 20:51, 30 December 2023
red they used cochineal, a brilliant scarlet dye made from insects. A native of Central America collecting cochineal insects from a cactus to make red dye...28 KB (3,477 words) - 23:37, 6 April 2024
around tourism and agriculture (principally rearing of cochineal beetles in fields of opuntia cactus). Its nearest neighbours are the villages of Guatiza...1 KB (150 words) - 22:49, 9 December 2013- from the cochineal, an insect of the same family as the Kermes of Europe and the Middle East, which feeds on the Opuntia, or prickly pear cactus plant....36 KB (4,987 words) - 13:29, 22 February 2024
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6 Cochineal 21777461911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6 — Cochineal COCHINEAL, a natural dye-stuff used for the production
- bugs - the Opuntia is also used as a host for cochineal bugs for the Cochineal dye industry. Most cactus species, there are some 2500 of them altogether