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From: B-P on ICORS: The Orange Blaze/Texas Funeral Home Commission [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:54 PM
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Subject: [BP] Katrina Mulch


 
From one of my correspondents:
 
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 where it came from 
 

Then there's the problem of the stuff in the water coating the trees, which if it didn't kill the termites made the bastards a hell of a lot stronger.. 




 
Bruce responds...
 
Not likely to happen according to this (assuming the controls in place are followed...):
 
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mulch_termites.htm
 
Hoodoo Doctor

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