[AT] Termites in your mulch?

[Steve W.]

Snopes says it is false, as does Home Depot and Lowes.

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

Steve Williams
Near Cooperstown, New York

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: [AT] Termites in your mulch?


> 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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