With tick season ramping up again this spring, it’s time to marshall your tools for keeping biting, disease-causing bugs at bay. Using bug spray is one important strategy, as is keeping your yard ...

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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 ...

A letter May 31 in The Sun criticized the use of the insecticide permethrin to control adult mosquitoes. Several statements in the letter concern me because they are misleading. I wish to address ...