Q: Lately, my doors and windows are hard to open, and I’ve noticed small piles of wood around the house. What does termite damage look like? Should I contact someone to perform an inspection? A: ...

Himba bushmen in the Namibian grasslands have long passed down legends about the region’s mysterious fairy circles: bare, reddish-hued circular patches that are also found in northwestern Australia.

A growing body of experimental evidence shows that common termiticides do not simply poison individual termites but ...

It's easy to confuse termite damage and wood rot. Both result in deteriorating wood and can be devastating to a home. However, termite damage and wood rot have entirely different causes, so their ...

A pair of fossilized termites are proving that love can last forever -- when frozen in amber -- and that their extinct species got it on 38 million years ago roughly the same way as termites today, ...

Q: We have a very large/old saguaro in our front yard, as well as some other barrel cacti and other saguaros. About two years ago, we discovered we had the beginning of termite damage in our ceiling ...

In the forest and other natural settings, termites are beneficial insects that recycle woody debris, such as dead trees, and return nutrients to the soil. But when they attack our houses, it’s a ...

Terminex completed its inspection of our house-in-contract. The inspector did not find any evidence of active termites but did find very old signs of termite presence at one time (this is consistent ...