Re: Apology for offending w/termite urban legend :0(

In a message dated 3/11/2006 8:44:31 AM Central Standard Time, GalwayGP writes:


Hope A FEW of you can get over the fact that I sent you a "mass mailing" about termites.....a good friend had sent it to me, just trying to help me.  It took me a LONG time to plan what special gardening friends I was going to try to HELP, but apparently some of you got very upset.  Oh well......I'm not one to send forwards anyway.  I won't do it again.   Phyl 



For what it's worth, the stuff you sent was not off base.
Yesterday I received a communication from Harry Fulton, State Entomologist, employed by the State of Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce written on that department letterhead.

Paraphrasing, that letter expresses concern over mulch originating in Mississippi, Louisianna, and Texas relative to Rule 40 under the Mississippi Plant Act entitled "Formosan Subterranean Termite Quarantine".

Extra caution was urged. Materials include mulch, used cross-ties, utilitie polls and lumber. In Mississippi quarantined counties include Hinds, Lauderdale, and Madison and others south of Interstate 20, a total of 25 counties.

Materials may be moved from these counties only with state inspection and/or treatment.

The communication also lists four counties in Alabama, San Diego County in California, the entire state of Florida, six counties in Georgia, all of Hawaii, twenty-six parishes in Louisiana, two counties in North Carolina, six counties in South Carolina, one county in Tennessee, and fourteen counties in Texas. All of which come under this quarantine. The regulation has been in effect since 2002.

Smiles,
Bill Burleson

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