[AT] Termites in your mulch?

[Rob Gray]

Speaking of which, I put mulch around my house for the first time a few 
years ago. The exterminator told me that was the worst thing I could do 
at my house related to termites. Apparently putting a lot of rotting 
wood a few feet next outside of old stone walls with 200 year old beams 
embedded in those walls is not a great idea... lol

Rob
NE PA USA, Earth


Mike Sloane wrote:

> 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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>
> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
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