It’s estimated that more than one in five homes in urban areas of most Northern California cities have been or will be attacked by Western subterranean termites. These voracious insects are highly ...

These tiny intruders have a mouth designed to chew wood. If you spot a few, they're not alone. A termite nest can have a population of about a million, and they're just as adept at hiding as ...

Mixing their own poop into nest walls gives Formosan termites a bacterial boost in fighting off human attempts to destroy them with insect plagues. A bacterial strain found in the fecally-enhanced ...

Flying ants and termites are not the same thing. Here are the differences and what you can do about an infestation.

Described by researchers as one of the most serious wood-destroying pests in the world, subterranean termites cause an ...

A newly developed mathematical model helps explain the intricate architecture of termite nests and how they are built. The nest of the African termite is excavated underground by the colony. Alexander ...