Tanacetum niveum has distinctively white-gray foliage. Joe

The pyrethrum has to be extracted, and not just from any old daisy. There are specific species used to make the insecticide. There are a number of things that are affecting honeybee populations, and there are flowers that are poisonous to them. I know that the California buckeye, for one, kills larval bees when honey from its nectar is fed to them, but it doesn't affect the adults collecting the nectar. The bees don't know this because they are European natives and have not lived around CA buckeye long enough to figure out the connection yet. Feverfew could have a similar action, I don't know, but it does come from the same part of the world that honeybees come from so you'd think they'd be adapted to it ... Insecticide use is very bad for bees - not just yours, but all your neighbors too. There are various epidemics among bee hives too, varroa mite for one, and a virus from Australia for another. Plus, there are fewer and fewer bee keepers as people migrate indoors more and more and spend less time gardening and farming. Around here, honeybees need beekeepers as the climate is not conducive to wild honeybee colonies surviving for long. Plus fear of bee stings and bee allergies drives people to kill bee colonies for one, and to avoid planting flowers that bees like for another. Bees love clover, but so many people use weed killers on their lawns specifically to kill off the clover so there wont' be any bees on the lawn. What's a poor bee supposed to do?? Bees love the daisy flowers, and I've never noticed a connection between daisy flowers and bee mortality. I used to be married to someone from a family of beekeepers and I would have heard about it if daisies were a problem for bees.

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Ha! I think I have figured out some of the contradictions above (annual/perennial; reseeds massively/does not; invasive or not; woody or not; and the PICTURES!). We appear to be talking about 2 completely unrelated plants - chrysanthemum parthenium (aka tanacetum perthenium) and orlaya grandiflora. The former is a type of daisy (perennial), looks like a daisy, talks like a daisy, walks like a daisy, etc. The latter is an annual, looks related to Queen Anne's Lace. Look at the pictures - the ones posted by Irisgal directly above are orlaya grandiflora. The one posted higher up by Vickysgarden is a version of the daisy one. This is what we get for using only a common name - many totally unrelated plants have the same common name. Although when I looked on the web I must say that I never found any reference to orlaya gradiflora being called "feverfew", that does not mean it is not called that somewhere. Jackie