While some insects benefit gardens, a great many more are pesky pests that can ruin backyard outings. One way to keep your ...

Using digital image analysis, scientists developed a rapid, nondestructive method for determining pyrethrum flower number. The utility of using this approach for biomass assessment in pyrethrum is ...

Pyrethrum flowers, a member of the daisy family, are seen in full bloom in an about 2,000-square-meter terraced field overlooking a fishing port on Innoshima Island, in Onomichi, Hiroshima ...

Thus investment in production of flowers and seeds ... the crop over poor returns. (PHOTO: FILE/ STANDARD) Kenyans have a new opportunity to revive pyrethrum farming. A new body should be formed ...

This flower, the pyrethrum plant, contains a potent chemical that is made into an effective, and environmentally friendly, insecticide. Gilgil, Kenya — The deadliest flower in the insect world ...

Sometimes a flower does more than just add beauty to your garden. Pyrethrum daisies not only look beautiful when massed together, but also help keep bugs away from your plants. Pyrethrum daisies ...

THE pyrethrin content as determined by the chemical process is the only factor that influences the market value of pyrethrum, as it is held that a close relationship exists between the amount of ...

One of the oldest pesticides known, pyrethrum is also the strongest insecticide allowed under National Organic Standards guidelines. Made from the dried flowers of a little white daisy now ...

"The pyrethrum is concentrated in the flower, the bit we are interested in is the seed. "It's evolved in nature as a way of protecting the seed from insect damage, but we're able to extract that ...