mulch 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 many 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 have 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 where it came from.


Michael T. Mengak
Associate Professor-Wildlife Specialist
D. B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of
Georgia Athens, GA 30602

Phone: 706.583.8096
Fax: 706.542.8356
Email: [email protected]