For all you homeowners and avid gardeners:

If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch
this year. During 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 where Formosan Termites have 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.

Check out this website: http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/

And Saturday's Raleigh News & Observer:

http://www.newsobserver.com/686/story/416836.html





wrote:
Then again, maybe not.

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

In article , "miked27607" wrote:

Check out this website: http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/

You would think that the LSU folks would update this page, and include a
disclaimer on the HD/Lowes info.