ATV Florida Forum

FYI for those who plan on any landscaping this year.

 

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/ 

Or to use pine chips.

Mystery solved!  That's why my house disapeared  ;D  I knew there was something fishy about the mulch bags, they said:  "Gumbo Mulch, for yards with a hearty appetite"   ;) ;D

I have a question... how do you determine where the mulch came from? Also, don't they treat the wood before it's distributed? Guess I won't be using mulch for awhile.

FYI... Snopes says...

 "might be possible, it isn't as likely as that message makes it out to be"

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


Think about it, termites can spread in a lot of different ways, but red mulch has been dyed I would think that would kill the termites?

Cypress mulch is the best, termites don't like it. Or the red rubber stuff. The free mulch you can get from the county is mulched tree trimmings that are usually hard woods and the termites love it.

Now thats funny there.