This one made me do a double take. A tiny insect has been used for centuries to give foods their red color, and there's a good chance you've eaten it before.

Amor Nouira, a farmer in Tunisia's Chebika village, has lost hope of saving his prickly pear cacti, ravaged by the cochineal insect spreading across North Africa. The 50-year-old has seen his ...

The guts of an insect called the cochineal contain a traditional source of bright red dye -- a dye which has now become a booming industry because of a growing preference for juices and yogurts that ...

In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers’ fields of prickly pear have been spoiled by the cochineal, which swept through North Africa 10 ...

In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers' fields of prickly pear have been spoiled by the cochineal, which swept through North Africa 10 years ago — Sofiene HAMDAOUI Amor ...