mulch and Formosan Termites from New Orlean

[Slava V]

MULCH ALERT!!!

I checked this out on the Louisiana agricultural dept. web site FYI.

Shortcut to: http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/

If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch
this year. After the Hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown
over. These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is trying to
get rid of tons and tons of this mulch to any state or company who will
come and haul it away. So it will be showing up in Home Depot and Lowes at
dirt cheap prices with one huge problem; Formosan Termites will be the
bonus in many of those bags. New Orleans! is one of the few areas in the
country were the Formosan Termites has gotten a strong hold and most of the
trees blown down were already badly infested with those termites. Now we
may have the worst case of transporting a problem to all parts of the
country that we have ever had. These termites can eat a house in no time at
all and we have no good control against them, so tell your friends that own
homes to avoid cheap mulch and know were it came from.

[blue_mood]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp