Piles of mulch protect young trees in a snowy scene. - Vladyslav Varshavskiy/Getty Images Don't you just love that feeling of tucking your plants in for winter by placing a nice layer of mulch around ...

Mulches, in general, are rarely eaten by termites. Despite the extremely widespread use of mulches in beds across the southeast, there are no widespread reports of problems with termites associated ...

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 an anonymous e-mail in wide circulation, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sight of a winged insect or two along the baseboards can send a shudder into even the most experienced homeowner's heart. After all, an actual termite infestation raises an immediate quandary. You ...

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 ...

Dryer vents can be an entry point for termites. Don’t vent dryers into crawl spaces. The air creates the moist, humid ...

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Don't you just love that feeling of tucking your plants in for winter by placing a nice layer of mulch around them? It benefits your plants by suppressing disease, protecting bare soil from erosion, ...