Fw: Mulch Warning from U of Guelph

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- Fw: Mulch Warning from U of Guelph

 

If you use mulch around your house be very careful

about buying it

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 places like Home

Depot 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 USA were

the Formosan

Termite 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 this problem to all parts of the States

and Canada 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 who own homes to

avoid cheap mulch and know

were it came from.

 

Jennifer Beehler

Secretary to the Chair

Clinical Studies Department

Ontario Veterinary College

University of Guelph

 

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