Re: True or False?

Formosan termites in NOLa. Have not heard any alarms about them here, but it wouldn't surprise.

I also got a similar e-message. Also remember getting a similar one a few years ago [can't remember the catastrophe for that one]. I figure it's probably 90 percent overly active imagination and 10 percent speculation--like the little finger tip in the Bg Mac. No one ever seems to have the name and address of a person who bought such a bag, let alone the name of the extension entomologist who identified it as Formosan.

There are lots of things to feel paranoid about, but I'd make this about number 345 on a list of 100.


On Mar 4, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:

I got a similar e-mail, but mine referred to "Formosan" termites. I do know there was the beginning of a problem with them when I left Florida 9 years ago. Jim would surely be more informed than I, however.
zem
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Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:16 AM
Subject: [CHAT] True or False?


I have received excited reports from three non-gardening types of the
great threat of "Samoan termites" being spread nationwide in cheap
mulch made from trees from New Orleans that had been ground up
in the cleanup after the hurricane. All these people are sure a national
disaster is in the making. My first answer is "why are you buying
cheap mulch?" Then "Why Samoan termites? How did they get
to New Orleans?" Of course this is answered by referrence to
"invasive aliens."
I have tried to Google this and though there are reports
of termites in Samoa, mostly seeming to come from Australia, and
a Univ. of Florida document on the genus lists them, I can find nothing
that connects them to mulch or New Orleans. Any input from this
erudite crowd?
Auralie

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