Yogurt company Dannon has come under fire recently for the most obscure of reasons. The company’s Fruit on the Bottom label has several products that include an ingredient called carmine that helps to ...

The intense red color of classic lipstick traditionally comes from an unlikely source: crushed bugs that live on cactus plants in South America. It takes tens of thousands of the ground-up insects to ...

Starbucks is coming under fire from vegans for using ground-up bugs to color its Frappuccinos, but the use of cochineal insects is actually common in the food industry. In fact, cochineal dye has been ...

When young spotted lanternflies grow, they become bright red. Around this time, they also begin to feed almost exclusively on the so-called tree of heaven, from which they suck bitter juices. In this ...

A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of ...

A new, simple scanning system can create precise 3D models of insects in color. The system uses off-the-shelf equipment, including a camera and a computer, to obtain detailed, true-color 3D images of ...

Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock's feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white camouflage of polar bears. Usually, fine structural detail ...