— -- Starbucks has the vegan community seeing red over what it recently began using to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos: beetles. That's beetles as in ground up cochineal beetles — mostly found ...

Starbucks Corp. is phasing out the use of a natural coloring derived from crushed beetles in its Strawberry Frappuccinos and smoothies, as well as a few sweet treats, after a storm kicked up by the ...

Brilliant gold- (and silver-colored beetles have given optics researchers new insights into the way biology can recreate the appearance of some of nature's most precious metals, which in turn may ...