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What are these red bugs on my houseplant's leaves? Here's what you need to know about getting rid of spider mites on indoor plants
Spider mites, for example, are little red spider-like bugs that are often found outdoors on fruit and vegetable plants. While you might think this means your indoor plants are safe, spider mites ...
Little bugs live in our eyelashes. Should we be concerned?
Most of us have tiny bugs living on our faces ... which is not serious but presents as a long-lasting red rash on the ...
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The crushed bugs that dye foods red, like strawberry Yoplait yogurt
That bright red comes from something else called carmine ... you have to farm these little bugs, and collect billions of pounds of them, and dry all them and all that, so I think that just ...
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Why tiny cactus bugs in red food dye are a $35 billion industry
An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.
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Long before lab-made colors, cactus bugs put the red in ‘redcoats’
Centuries before the now-banned red dye No. 3 was synthesized in a lab, humans turned to insects to color their foods, ...