How To Use Pyrethrum In A Sentence

  • Daisy plants were first used centuries ago as a lice remedy in the Middle East, and this led to the discovery of pyrethrum insecticides.
  • Rwanda's export opportunities to the US include textile and clothing, and horticulture products which include pyrethrum extracts, organic food products as well as essential oils such as geranium which is used in pharmaceutical industries and perfumes. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • A natural pyrethrum insecticide is cheaper, less harmful and just as effective as those chemical poisons to kill spiders.
  • Then she went to the garden centre and bought pyrethrum with which to spray the greenfly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not all herbs smell good - catmint, curry plant, pyrethrum, rue, santolina and tansy are all pretty pongy, ranging from slightly musty to downright disgusting.
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  • You can treat them with pyrethrum, white oil, soapy water or just squash them with your fingers.
  • ‘That's pyrethrum,’ said Niko ‘it's used as an insecticide.’
  • These hatch out in moist potting mix and can be treated by immersing the pot and spraying the foliage in a solution of pyrethrum insecticide.
  • Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • When I looked closely I could see the truck had a PyGanic label with the iconic pyrethrum flower on the side.
  • By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
  • It seems probable that in the future, synthetic pyrethroids will be of more interest than pyrethrum as possible delousing agents.
  • The spray does not control the adults, so you can either handpick the adults or spray them with pyrethrum insecticide.
  • For body lice, use pyrethrum with piperonyl butoxide lotion over the whole body and wash off after 10 minutes.
  • Not all herbs smell good - catmint, curry plant, pyrethrum, rue, santolina and tansy are all pretty pongy.
  • Pueraria Thunbergiana pumpkin pumps pyracantha pyrethrum pyrus, species quereus species quince, culture of rabbit injury radish railroad-worm rainfall, saving raspberry, culture of raspberry diseases raspberry insects ravenna grass records of plantation red-bud red pepper red spider red-top removing large trees repairing trees retinosporas rhamnus species rhododendron rhododendron species Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • Or investing in the agricultural sector so farmers are more able to meet demand for crops like Artemesia annua and pyrethrum, easily-grown botanical ingredients in anti-malarial drugs? Global Voices in English » Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria
  • Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands; and the siliqua hirsuta applied externally to the parotid gland, and even hard substances in the ear, are said to have the same effect. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • In some areas, extremely fertile soils produce coffee, tea, and pyrethrum (used in making insecticides).
  • Pesticides that are approved for organic farming include copper, sulfur, petroleum distillates, and pyrethrum.
  • Important September blooming flowers are phlox, Japanese anemones; perennial asters, or Michaelmas daisy, so-called because they are supposed to be at their best on Michaelmas Day, September 29th; helleniums, helianthus, hardy chrysanthemum, pyrethrum uliginosum, boltonia. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
  • Geoff reckons to use a contact spray like pyrethrum which breaks down within about 24 hours.
  • Adult mosquitoes were obtained from houses within a village by resting and pyrethrum knockdown collections.
  • Pesticides that are approved for organic farming include copper, sulfur, petroleum distillates, and pyrethrum.
  • By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
  • This is the area where significant cash crops are grown, including pyrethrum (a flower that produces a natural insecticide), coffee and tea.
  • Some are derived from plants, such as pyrethrum and neem.
  • By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
  • American consumers - and especially the military, which had used pyrethrum for delousing front-line troops - howled for the development of a suitable substitute.
  • Rotenone and pyrethrum don't work, even if applied more frequently.
  • You can purchase concentrated pyrethrum from a nursery or the garden supply section of your supermarket.
  • Others are synthetic versions of naturally-occurring insecticides, such as those found in the plant pyrethrum.

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