Termites are undoubtedly one of homeowners’ biggest nightmares, causing billions of dollars in property damage every year. Most often, homeowners don’t know that they’re harboring a colony of termites ...

Most homes have landscaping that runs around the foundation and most of that landscaping uses mulch. While it may certainly look great, applying mulch around the foundation of your home runs the risk ...

The termites are coming! The termites are coming! But they aren’t coming in mulch harvested from trees downed by Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. They come every spring. In what may be the greatest e ...

You spend hours perfecting your garden beds, spreading fresh mulch around the foundation, and creating that magazine-worthy curb appeal. What you don't realize? You might be rolling out the red carpet ...

Q: I was out poking around the garden beds on one of those recent warm days and noticed a nest of skinny winged insects crawling in the mulch. I was concerned that they might be termites, so I looked ...

Riding the communication slipstream of the Internet, a rumor spread through cyberspace Friday sending shivers down the spines of Houston homeowners. Ravenous Formosan Subterranean Termites, infesting ...

The latest effect of Hurricane Katrina appears to be a largely unfounded scare that swept the gardening and horticulture worlds recently, raising concerns that bark mulch infested with a dangerous ...

PROBABLY the biggest mistake most home gardeners will make is either not mulching their gardens or, if they do, using the wrong type of mulch. There are number of important reasons why you should ...

Use these simple tips to prevent termites from ever entering your house in the first place.

Who knew a bag of mulch could contain so much hysteria? As in, open the bag and let loose the mother of all termites to devour your precious home. In a picture of doom and gloom working the global ...

If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch this year. After the hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown over. These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is ...

In the forest and other natural settings, termites are beneficial insects that recycle woody debris, such as dead trees, and ...