[Groop] I got this from my real estate agent

[Chris Schechner]

WARNING 
 
If you buy mulch this spring and summer, make sure you know where it came
from.


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 where the Formosan
Termites has gotten a stronghold 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 there apparently is no
good control against them, so tell your friends that own homes to avoid
cheap mulch and know were it came from. 
 
Shortcut to: http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/  





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