Hickory Creek Civic Club

Possible Termite Problem

Mar 02, 2006

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

I checked this out on snopes--seems probable but not determined for sure. Better to be safe than sorry!

Thanks for passing it along!

Marcie

You can never tell which of these emails is legitimate or not, but this one
sounds like a potential problem, especially since a lot of families have
yard services performing their maintenance each month. I myself can attest
to not knowing where my mulch comes from...

Just food for thought...

Melissa
Hickory Knoll

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

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.