Dividing community labor between soldiers, workers and reproducers, termites sustain themselves by attacking and ingesting wood. Because wood is one of the most widely used building materials, it’s ...

Stopping termites early can save thousands in repairs and help protect your home from permanent damage. Termites enter homes through cracks, wet spots, or wood that touches soil, making prevention and ...

Termites are some seriously hungry critters. They’ll munch on just about anything containing cellulose, which is found in plant fiber used to make paper and wood products. Termites will snack on all ...

For Zach DeVries, an assistant professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Kentucky who works with its Cooperative Extension Service, this is the time of year he gets the most calls about ...

(WSVN) - Termites are eating up a South Florida townhouse. The homeowner says he needs to tent the place to exterminate the pests, but he can’t. That’s why a call came in to Help Me Howard with ...

Sulfuryl fluoride is used to fumigate homes to kill termites since another pesticide, methyl bromide, was found to be ozone depleting. But sulfuryl fluoride is a greenhouse gas that's much more ...

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a highly effective, nontoxic, and less expensive way to lure hungry termites to their doom. The method, detailed in the Journal of Economic Entomology, uses a ...