#cochineal
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cochineal from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 09:37 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 09:37 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #cochineal.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 09:37 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~26577 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (36) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 3.6
Top of the latest posts
Boiled for an hour. HOLEY SHEET, it worked! (Actually not any holes in these sheets). Now to dry, then apparently you wash it and see how much color actually stays in there. I guess I will do that outside so no one gets pink colored clothin
DYE sheet, DYE! 🤪#dye #dyeing #fabric #cochineal
***I gave up on the extracting the cochineal from the bug shells through filtering... would not filter through a coffee filter or newspaper. So, I threw all the bugs in the pot, boiled it, and then filtered the bugs out using a window scree
What “cochineal” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediacochineal/ˌkɒtʃɪˈniː(ə)l/
- nounA species of insect (Dactylopius coccus).
- adjectivePossessing a vivid red color, as produced from dying with cochineal.
The cochineal is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America through North America, this insect lives on cacti in the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. The insects are found on the pads of prickly pear cacti, collected by brushing them off the plants, and dried.
“Cochineal” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#cochineal across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #cochineal straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/cochineal