This may be a repeat, but it's certainly worth repeating.

Today I saw bags of a reddish-colored mulch stacked outside the door of a Des 
Mones supermarket--might be the bad stuff.

Tom

Subj:   [IOWA-NATIVE-PLANTS] Fw: Warning    
Date:   3/6/2006 3:50:52 PM Central Standard Time   
From:    [log in to unmask] (Caroline Dieterle)
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Some really bad news about an invasive pest:


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [<A HREF="mailto:[log in to unmask]">mailto:[log in to unmask]</A>] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Warning
> 
> 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's the link:<A HREF="http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/en/environment/insects/termites/formosan_termites/">
> Click here: LSU AgCenter . Formosan Subterranean Termites Portal</A>
> 
> 
>   



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