[AT] Termites in your mulch?

[Mike Sloane]

I am forwarding the attached without comment - I don't know how much 
truth there is to it, and I don't buy mulch.

Mike
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Louisiana agricultural dept. web site FYI.
<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.
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