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kt -
HOLY MOLY! Kind of gives a new comprehension of things when you see someone flick a butt out the window...of any kind - sorry to hear that.
I was sent this by a buddy of mine from the industry. I do not know how much truth there is, but, it sure does make sense and attention should be taken...
Notice from your Home Builder's Association
Please be advised of the following warning and pass along to your friends, fellow builders, landscapers, etc.
Louisiana agricultural dept. web site FYI.
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.
K Dennis
Executive Officer
Marshall County Home Builder's Assoc.
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kt,
Your comment "No doubt Louisiana is better at keeping mulch in than getting people out", is interesting. With everything (finger pointing, etc) that has come to light with the gazillions of investigations into why things did not work, I hope that the stuff will stay put.
When I was working in northern Georgia some years ago, I had the experience of a personal encounter with Fire Ants. NO MERCY that those little buggers have !!!! WOW....I can still remember the E.R. !
I had gotten some eucalyptus shreaded bark some years ago. It smelled good, and was real soft, and did not have to worry about bugs - it repels them. All of a sudden though, I had a yard full of Kuala bears! ( )
- Willie H
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kt -
To be totally honest, I don't know. I put about 15 yards around the place 'cause I got sick and tired of the moles and skunks digging and kicking the "regular" mulch looking for grubs. Everytime I went out in the morning, I could figure on grabbing my steel rake and resetting alot of mulch. So I tried the eucalyptus.
We have a processing plant local to my Father's house that handles all kinds of different media. Then in the springtime, the plant turns around and donates about 150 trailer boxes worth of pallets filled with all kinds of various varieties of stuff - everything from specialized growth enhancers for Rhody's / Azaleas to twenty different types of mulch. I scoffed up as much eucalyptus as I could get.....no more bugs, no more moles, and the neighbors cat disappeared as well! Must've been all the "bears"!
SG8NUC -
Just the rememberance of them little buggers on me, and where they bit is enough to make me get up out of this chair and shake my pants legs! I am hoping that the frost that we have here is what keeps them at bay.
With all due respect, I have witnessed MANY wonderful people and moments during my time in the south, but you can keep the Fire Ants, Thank you very much.
- Willie H
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Wingwiper -
Yea, your right about the poisonous leaves and such. I realize the eucalyptus is poisonous to many creatures, however so is /are marigolds to many critters, besides the stench that the marigolds give off.
I guess the Kuala bear is about the only creature that can consume the stuff without keeling over.
SG8NUC -
You know what, I have never seen an armadillo in real life. They must be somewhat similar to the mentality of the possum that we have up here - damn stupid things! You can come across the darn things at night, and they'll lay over and either stop and freeze staring at you or simply play dead on their sides. I guess you could say that they are the same short of the armor.
Wait aminute...All this time I have been going on about the Koala Bear, not as I have been writing "kuala". I think I have been thinking of that drink again...KAHLUA...yea that's it....
The Kahlua Bear !
- Willie H
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