- Rapid Action: Pyrethrum is a contact insecticides attacking
the nervous system of insects almost immediately and causing knockdown,
soon followed by kill.
- Low Mammalian Toxicity: No other insecticide can claim such
a long record of proven safety towards humans and warm blooded animals.
It is one of the least toxic of domestic insecticides available and
is rapidly metabolised if accidentally swallowed.
- Lack of Insect Immunity: The structure of the molecule is
so complex that insect resistance to Pyrethrum is not a practical
problem.
- Broad Spectrum of Activity: Because Pyrethrum consists of
a group of related compounds, it has a wider spectrum of activity
against insect species than many single insecticides. It can be used
against any insect found in the house or garden: mosquitoes, flies,
cockroaches, aphids, ants...
- Environment friendly - Non resistant: Pyrethrum is degraded
by the combination of sunlight and air and therefore presents little
of the hazards which are usually associated with other classes of
persistent insecticide.
- Repellency: Pyrethrum is a powerful insect repellent which
in combination with its low mammalian toxicity favours it in many
applications, such as food and grain storage protection, personal
protection (spray-on, roll-on, mosquito coils). Beside repellency,
mosquito coils will inhibit target insects from biting.
- Flushing Action: Pyrethrum has a much greater flushing effect than any other insecticide; it disturbs pests in their hiding places forcing them to get out and to get exposed to the insecticide.
Pyrethrum & Malaria Kapi Ltd has been manufacturing Pyrethrum based insecticides since 1964. Pyrethrum is a 100% natural and environment friendly insecticide
Pyrethrum is derived from the dried flowers of Chrysanthemum Cinerariaefolium. The name given to the active insecticidal components of the dried flowers is "Pyrethrins". Kenya is the largest producer of Pyrethrum in the world, supplying 90% of the World's demand.
The Pyrethrum flower provides a highly effective protection against mosquitoes, carriers of killer diseases such as Malaria and Yellow Fever. The physiological action of pyrethrins is to inhibit the mosquitoes from biting and causes repellency, immobilisation, paralysis and death.
There is no effective vaccine against Malaria. The only way to avoid
it remains avoiding bites. Kapi offers a wide range of products for
comprehensive solutions including Mosquito Coils,
Sticks, Chips and repellents.
These products are complementary to mosquito nets in controlling mosquitoes
in the hours between dusk and bedtime, under the net.
Pyrethrum is a complex insecticide with the following outstanding properties:
Almost half the world's population lives today under the threat of Malaria and some 500 million people fall ill with it each year, making Malaria the most wide-spread of all tropical diseases and one of the most lethal (World Health Organisation). Every 20 seconds someone dies of Malaria - there are over 1.5 million victims each year.
