If you spend time outside, you know that pests can be a real nuisance. You can naturally keep pests away by planting one ...

The yellow center of the 'killer chrysanthemum' contains a natural toxin that is a powerful insecticide. This flower, the pyrethrum plant, contains a potent chemical that is made into an effective ...

The insecticide, Pyrethrum comes from an African species of chrysanthemum. This pesticide acts just like many synthetic pesticides in that it affects the nerve connection to and from the brain.

But do they work? In ancient Persia (current-day Iran), the natural insecticide Pyrethrum, made from dried Chrysanthemum flowers, was utilized to paralyze insects that attack edible plants — and ...

Against the backdrop of growing resistance of disease-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes to pyrethroid, the insecticide currently used in insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), the WHO now recommends that ...

Currently, Kapi buys flowers from farmers and extracts the pyrethrum for the manufacturing of organic pesticide products. Mr Shaw, the firm’s managing director, labels Kenyan pyrethrum as the ...