[Cob] FW: gardener's alert

[jenny walker]

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 is the link to the article from LSU:

<http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/en/environment/insects/Termites/formosan_termites/
index.htm>





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