IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This specimen is one of approximately ...

Q: I have a prickly pear with an increasing number of chalky-white splotches forming on the pads. Is this a fungus? Can it be treated? Should I just get rid of the plant? (It isn’t very big). A: What ...

SAN FRANCISCO TEPEYACAC, Mexico — One family in central Mexico is struggling to preserve the production of cochineal dye, an intense, natural red pigment so prized that, after gold and silver, it was ...

THE commercial value of the insects from which cochineal, lac, and Japanese white wax are obtained were briefly referred to, by Dr. L. O. Howard, in the course of a short paper on a useful American ...

An insect, which will be unleashed in WA's northern Goldfields in a bid to kill off an invasive cactus, has arrived in Kalgoorlie and begun a breeding program. A biosecurity group has imported the ...

Antimonium tartaricum 6C HPUS, Bryonia alba 3C HPUS, Coccus cacti 3C HPUS, Drosera rotundifolia 3C HPUS, Ipecacuanha 3C HPUS, Pulsatilla 6C HPUS, Rumex crispus 6C HPUS, Spongia tosta 3C HPUS, Sticta ...

An insect native to South America is set to be released in Western Australia's northern Goldfields in a bid to kill off outbreaks of an invasive cactus. A biosecurity group plans to import the ...