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Prohibiting the illegal export of cochineal insects; this was a Spanish crown monopoly through about...

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Cochineal is a scale insect that affixes itself to nopal cactus to feed. Here the worker is scrapping the insects from the nopal leaves.

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The males fly to the females.

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Once the nopal leaves are scrapped of insects, they are poured into this little palm woven nest,...

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"Mature" cochineal, ready to be scrapped from the surface of the nopal cactus leaf. ...

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Nopal leaves are grown and harvested. They're re-planted inside tents and used to feed the cochineal insect.

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Female (fuzzy white scale insect) and male (with wings) on nopal

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Carminic acid produced by the female cochineal insect

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Male cochineal; only a few are needed to reproduce on a large scale

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Generations of nopal which will be used to grow the cochineal insect.

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