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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Earlier this month, I attended a lecture on tropical gardens. I enjoyed it until the Q&A session, when a homeowner asked the speaker if he thought mulch was a good idea. The lecturer said he didn’t ...