Re: Chlorodane
- Subject: Re: Chlorodane
- From: &* M* <t*@mac.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:25:10 -0400
On 3/15/08, at 3:05 PM, billgrant grant@ebold.com said:
>Just back from a week in southern Arizona looking at plants (and sand
>hill cranes!!!). Talked with a retired builder in Phoenix.
>"There is one section of Phoenix where the builders (over 20 years ago)
>soaked the building sites with chlorodane before they built the houses.
>There has never been a termite report from any house in that area."
>Before we knew how terrible it is. People are still sneaking it in from
>Mexico, he said. bill grant, aptos
Chlordane (only one "o") used to be the treatment used in Florida to
prevent/stop termites. I think it was outlawed over 20 years ago. Our
house was built in 1987 and they used Dursban -- 7 years later we had a
termite swarm. Now I think fipronil is a popular choice. It was used on
our house several years ago. Yesterday my wife peeled away wallpaper
from an outer wall and saw where something had put "gouges" in the
wallboard under that wallpaper -- probably termites.
Tom Miller
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