Kermes vermilio

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What Wikipedia says

Kermes vermilio is a species of Kermes that feeds on trees. It is used by humans to make vermilion, though a mineral form used in many cultures and discovered at a similar time is cinnabar (crystallized HgS, mercury sulfide).

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Image: Pierre Joseph Garidel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.