Dear Jamie: Stopping insects before they enter your house is always better than trying to treat an infestation once it is established. Insects can cause direct structural damage or increase the wood’s ...

As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

Woman removing ashes from her wood-burning fireplace - Maria Sonia Salvador Verdugo/Getty Images You may already have a habit of reusing ash from fireplaces and fire pits, but are you taking full ...

It has been more than four years since Mary Gallagher noticed the small piles of "sawdust" beneath her imported, carved-wood elephant and watched, stunned, as tiny beetles scampered from small bore ...

Shortly after Donald Dickson built a home on the five acres he owns in Gainesville, Fla., he faced a problem all too familiar to him. Within a year, termites invaded the wooden door leading to Dickson ...

During spring, the wood in your house can become the perfect home for insects that never sleep: termites. In North Carolina, termite season usually begins in March or April, when the wood-eating pests ...

It’s also a tasty snack, at least for fungi and insects such as termites. On a molecular level, wood is about three-quarters polymerized sugars that are indigestible to humans and most other animals.

Springfield, VA / Syndication Cloud / March 2, 2026 / Connor’s Pest Pros Key Takeaways DIY pest control products often ...

Did you know that when you leave the dead tree stump in the yard, or you pile up the limbs that you pruned from your tree, you are going to bring more life to your yard? The typical reaction to a dead ...