OT: Mulch Warning

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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.
Here's the link:

Click here: LSU AgCenter . Formosan Subterranean Termites Portal
 
What is about the so much praised FBI and Central Intelligence, don´t
they do something?
I remember a kind of creeper generated in the USA. Then the Ships must
change their water in the middle of the sea, or may not enter not-US
bays.



Kind Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
I was of the opinion that termites don't infest living trees.
Therefore it would be likely that most of those trees would not
have been infested until after they died.
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No, Formosan termites do infest living plants. Here's an article from
1998 with a lot of info. An expert estimates that 30% of the live oaks
and cypresses in N.O. were infested then.

<http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct98/term1098.htm>

One of the false claims in the hoax that was posted which wasn't
addressed by Snopes was that there's no way to control them. Bait
works.
The pulping process would also be very likely to kill them.
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Pulping would kill anything, I'd guess.
 
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. Here's the link:

Click here: LSU AgCenter . Formosan Subterranean Termites Portal
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Too cold where I live. Also we are the only one of the 48 lower sates
besides Ontario that do not have poisonous snakes.
Welcome to Maine. The way life should be.
 
dszady said:
Too cold where I live. Also we are the only one of the 48 lower sates
besides Ontario that do not have poisonous snakes.
Welcome to Maine. The way life should be.
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We have the Massassauga Rattlesnake in Ontario and it is poisonous. We
also have some low-down politicians, but that's another story. <g>
Lee in Toronto
 
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