Word: dactylopius
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intestines at the same speed as food, the brilliant red dye can tell a physician how long nourishment is staying in a disturbed digestive tract. Where had the dye come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius coccus, whose fat contains the dye. And where had they come from? The Canary Islands and Peru. In both places the insects appeared to be infected with cubana...
| 1 |