Lipstic from a bug
Series: Insect safari's with entomologist Dino Martins in Kenya
From: Paula Kahumbu
Length: 00:01:37
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Most people walk past a Cochineal bug infected cactus. Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins finds some in the wilderness and describes how this "Mouth part with a sack of eggs" is so important and why it is filled with red dye. Cochineal bugs are the source of the colour red in food colouring for cloth dying and lipstick!
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Most people walk past a Cochineal bug infected cactus. Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins finds some in the wilderness and describes how this "Mouth part with a sack of eggs" is so important and why it is filled with red dye. Cochineal bugs are the source of the colour red in food colouring for cloth dying and lipstick!
