Mulch warning

[Forrest]

Heard of this one?







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 http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/termites/

 

[biggieou]

Good post, thanks for letting us know!

 

[HoleshotHolset]

D'oh! Sorta reminds me of the Gypsy Moth issues we had in New England when I was younger...



Matt

 

[fkovalski]

Urban legend.



View link here---> snopes

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Ahh - let it go. At the very least... this will cause people to shop at their local hardware stores - which have been raked over the coals with low-cost utensils thanks to the likes of Home Depot, Lowes and Wal-Mart.



Support your local businesses!



Matt

 

[Forrest]

Urban legend.



View link here---> snopes

:-laf ... thanks

 

[ACoyle]

Fake



http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp

 

[Hummin Cummins]

I get all my mulch from my county landfill. Double ground, very nice stuff for 10 bucks a cubic yard. They take broken pallets and grind them along with tree limbs from building sites that are being cleared. They chip the limbs on site then grind them for mulch at the landfill

Chris

 

[nps]

Boy - seems like if it is on Snopes then it is automatically fake? Did anyone actually read what Snopes said about it? It is true - we just don't have to worry about it because:

All woody debris in the quarantined areas is going to an approved landfill within the designated quarantine area. There are a multitude of government (state and federal) agencies that are looking at this debris every day as it is deposited into these landfills. The contractors mulching and hauling the debris know the regulations and are abiding by them according to the quarantine requirements. If there is anyone with knowledge of debris moving out of a quarantine area, they should contact our 24-hour hotline at 225-925-3763.

Sure makes me feel better that state and federal regulators are watching over those honest and trustworthy contractors. Bet they haven't even had to take a message on the hotline. Someone should try calling it in the middle of the night to see if it works.



Wonder if these are the same federal regulators that makes sure the hot dog that falls on the floor of the sausage kitchen doesn't get tossed back onto the belt? :-laf