[MR] OT: Mulch Warning

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Subject: Mulch Warning
Importance: High


>From the Louisiana State University Agricultural Dept. web site FYI.

Shortcut to: 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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