“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

What these two scientists are independently trying to do with the plant in question, Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium, commonly known as pyrethrum, is to eventually grow large enough quantities of this ...

A Tasmanian botanical company has plans to greatly increase the state's production of the natural insecticide pyrethrum. Botanical Resources Australia has an extraction plant and pyrethrum farms in ...

Mosquito-borne diseases kill about 700,000 people every year. Lives can be spared by applying insect repellents, including a chrysanthemum flower extract called pyrethrum that humans have used for ...

Now Botanical Resources Australia – which produces 80 per cent of the world’s pyrethrin-based insecticides – is hoping to more than double the production of the active ingredient in Victoria and is on ...

TAMMY: Pyrethrum is a natural insecticide, made from plants in the now-obsolete genus of daisies that included chrysanthemums and tanacetum. The active chemicals in these plants are called pyrethrins ...

GARDENERS have a lot of different options when it comes to pest control remedies. While you can opt for the traditional insecticides on the market, you can also go the organic route with all-natural ...

Neem oil is extracted from neem tree seeds and is effective against a variety of pests. To create a spray, combine neem oil, water, and a little bit of liquid soap. Soybean or canola oil can suffocate ...

A new study has identified a scent receptor in mosquitoes that helps them sniff out and avoid trace amounts of pyrethrum, a plant extract used for centuries to repel biting insects. These findings ...

IN my article published in NATURE of June 27 (p. 720) on “Biological Assay of Insecticidal Sprays”, it was stated that a solution of pyrocatechol in ether was recommended as a stabilizer for the ...

THE insecticidal properties of the flowers of certain species of pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum) have been known for a long period, the very high toxicity of the active principles to insects and their ...