A precious ancient scarlet-red dye has been identified on 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were found in a desert cave. The rare textiles, which consist of uncolored linen and dyed bright red ...

When it comes to protecting crops via insect-blocking netting, you may think that the size of the holes in that netting is the most important factor. According to new research, however, the color of ...

The type of Welsh onions used in the experiment were a variety called Kujo negi. These onions are a traditional vegetable of the Kyoto region and a staple part of local cooking. Red nets are better at ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

Second, when I replaced the plants, I chose a wide variety of native species. Later, I found out that having a variety of ...

Meet some of the most bizarre animals you've ever seen. You'd think they came from another planet, but they're just really ...

For thousands of years, artisans have been dyeing textiles, jewelry, and handicrafts with a rich, vibrant red pigment that they obtain from lac insects. The most widely-cultivated lac insect, Kerria ...

Japanese Acers, also known as Maples, can be fussy with what you feed them and where you plant them to make a lovely red ...

While insect populations continue to decline, taxonomic expertise in Europe is at serious risk, confirms data obtained within the European Red List of Insect Taxonomists, a recent study commissioned ...

Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List ...

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 ...