Cochineal is the name of the insect and the red dye that is made from it ... killed and sun or oven dried. The insects are small, so it takes roughly 70,000 insects to make a pound of dye.

At first, a brown recluse spider bite may look like a bug bite or bee sting. It can be a small, raised red or purplish bump.

The tiny mites — also called berry bugs — may leave behind small, itchy red bumps. While it's easy to confuse chigger bites for other types of insect marks, there are some specific clues to ...

Chiggers are a type of mite, or arthropod, in the family Trombiculidae. They are extremely small red bugs that measure about 1/60th of an inch — barely visible with the naked eye — and you'd ...

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.