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?