"Jody" wrote in message
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Silvan wrote:
I know I saw a site somewhere that had all kinds of pictures of where
shellac comes from. Lac beetles, harvesting, what raw shellac looks like
with all the bug parts in it, etc. I've spent an hour googling, and I've
turned up bupkis. I usually don't bookmark things, because I have
gradually just grown dependent on remembering enough keywords to
re-google
something at will. Not this time.

Any ideas? Did I maybe read it in a book somewhere? I don't think any
of
my WW books have color photographs though, and this was color. I don't
read WW magazines.

I'm trying to find this to satisfy my children's curiosity about the bag
of
weird looking orange bug doodoo I have on my desk, and to assure them
that
it's not made at the expense of using up some unrenewable endangered
resource.

I have also just assured them that it's not really bug crap, but actually
something more like solidified aphid honeydew. Is that actually
accurate,
or is it really more of a fecal material?

After you show them it comes from bugs also tell them all the things they
eat that is coated in shellac. Some things that come to mind are fruits
and vegetables, some medication is coated.

candy, like m&ms.