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Old 06-04-2007, 02:52 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Natural Insect Repellants

AND it is very poisonous to fish!!!! and nearly everything in water. I cannot use
anything like this near my ponds. Ingrid

Jangchub wrote:
No, the flowers are crushed up and ground into powder and the entire
flower is the pyrethrum which is not only poison to insects, but to
most mammals, amphibians, and reptiles including birds (descendants of
reptiles).




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