[AT] Termites in your mulch?

[Larry D. Goss]

I used to be able to go down to my local convenience store or favorite
Big Box store and buy a few bags of mulch every year for the flower beds
around the house.  But that was before my wife got herself certified as
a Master Gardener.  Now, the bagged stuff is not satisfactory -- wrong
wood, wrong mixture, etc -- so I have to go out and buy the bulk stuff
at one of the local nurseries by the truck load.  Last year, I think I
filled the pickup six times before the season was over.  Each load is a
cubic yard of mulch.

I'm more concerned about the Emerald Ash Borer than I am about the
Formosan Termites.  Theoretically, we aren't infested yet, but I've lost
a couple dozen trees out of the yard --- all but two of them were ash.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Skip
Cleveland
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:12 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Termites in your mulch?

Formosan termites can live in wood above ground and thet will eat
through 
cement to get to wood..
Luan wood house trim and doors comes complete with wood boring beetels, 
alive and ready to eat your furniture, same with Formosan termites.

Skip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Termites in your mulch?


> On 8 Mar 2006 at 13:13, Mike Sloane wrote:
>
> most
>> of the trees blown down were already badly infested with those
termites.
>
>
>
>
> This phrase raised a red flag to me when I read it a week or so ago.
> I'm not acquainted with this particular termite but none I have ever
> read about ate anything but dead wood. As Larry said, they live in the

> ground.
>
>
> Just watch out for the "iron eating termites"...   :-)   The WUV is 
> getting a
> bad case of them this winter.
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack
> me at once.   :-)
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
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