Carpenter ants are common in Texas all year around. They naturally live in trees but can also invade homes to build their nests in wooded areas. The nesting of carpenter ants in homes indicates ...

If you've seen, inside your home, ants that are black and larger than the smaller, tan-colored varieties, chances are you have carpenter ants. And they can be very destructive. Unlike smaller, more ...

I have been seeing some large and small black ants in my kitchen over the last few days and have also noticed them crawling up the trunk of one of my old maple trees. There appears to be sawdust at ...

Carpenter ants don’t kill trees. I know it’s hard to believe, but true. The truth is that your tree already was in decline before the ants got to it. The ants take advantage of the soft rotting wood ...

The banded ash borer, which resembles a wasp. Most firewood-infesting insects are only a nuisance. Firewood can host a variety of wood-infesting insects, which occasionally escape into the home when ...

Q. We have hardwood floors and recently discovered that it has been eaten in a couple of places. Someone suggested that it is the sign of a wood borer. What do you suggest? Edith Sieg, Libertyville A.