Subject: 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 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:

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that's frightening

 

woah, thanks for the heads up! this sounds like it could turn into a big problem ...

question, what if your neighbor unknowlingly gets "infested" mulch, will the termites eventually screw over the entire neighborhood?

 

Yes.

 

Unlikely to be true Check Snopes

Link

 

Damn thats crazy

 

it's false...yea check snopes

 

Take any advice from the internets with a grain of salt...

 

Well, all you have to check is snopes or any other debunking site. And spread the word about debunking sites so that false rumors can stop at the root.

 

Yea Tom.. stop spreading rumors. Get your facts straight.