Moving from Los Angeles to a small, rural town in Oklahoma has proven to be an interesting experience for my family and me.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Cajun termites
Beware the hidden dangers in your mulch.
4 comments:
Anonymous
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Fortunately, the risk of actually bringing in Formosan termites from Louisiana is quite low, thanks to quarantines and precautions taken by the government and by the home-improvement stores themselves:
Which is not to say that mulch is completely safe. I find strange little critters in just about every batch I bring in, regardless of its source. The tubs of mulch I pick up for free from Tulsa's city-run yard waste recycling centers are usually lousy with spiders. But at least they're local spiders, and not some weird non-native species....
That sounds like a particularly spicey problem you guys are going to have. Perhaps, if you 'boil' the mulch and then throw it on a table, you'll be able to pick out the juicey little tid-bits... You know, a 'Termite boil'. Could this be a new fad starting?
4 comments:
Fortunately, the risk of actually bringing in Formosan termites from Louisiana is quite low, thanks to quarantines and precautions taken by the government and by the home-improvement stores themselves:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/termites.asp
Which is not to say that mulch is completely safe. I find strange little critters in just about every batch I bring in, regardless of its source. The tubs of mulch I pick up for free from Tulsa's city-run yard waste recycling centers are usually lousy with spiders. But at least they're local spiders, and not some weird non-native species....
That's comforting to know.
However, the "precautions taken by the government..." line doesn't reassure me as much as one would hope.
Hey ... you're doing a great job, Brownie.
That sounds like a particularly spicey problem you guys are going to have. Perhaps, if you 'boil' the mulch and then throw it on a table, you'll be able to pick out the juicey little tid-bits... You know, a 'Termite boil'. Could this be a new fad starting?
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