DESERT LIFE
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-04-03_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew delivers a thorny proposition from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.</a>)  Fortunes were made harvesting the prickly pear for this color dye, not from the plant, but from an <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-04-03_DJ_18a.jpg" target="_blank">insect on it</a> that secrets caminic acid'
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