Flying termites, or "swarmers," signal a nearby colony and can cause serious damage if not addressed quickly. To control flying termites, King recommends differentiating between long-term elimination ...

For Zach DeVries, an assistant professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Kentucky who works with its Cooperative Extension Service, this is the time of year he gets the most calls about ...

It's only February but early termite swarm activity has been detected across the United States, including San Diego, ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Imagine that you’re preparing dinner when suddenly ...

DEAR JOAN: Thought you might be interested in a phenomena I have witnessed for a number of years. I notice that flying termites exit the soil after the first rain of the year in the fall or winter.

After the first big rain, western subterranean termites swarm by the thousands. Hungry ants, spiders and birds pick them off as they emerge from the soil. The survivors fly off to find mates, and ...

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 ...

Reproductive swarms of Reticulitermes, a genus of termites endemic to North America. Courtesy Casey Hubble/UC ANR. This story originally appeared in the Redwood City Pulse, Palo Alto Online’s new ...

At entomologist parties, flying ants are discussed with words such as “nuisance” or “irritating.” Termites, however, are on the other side of this spectrum; whole sentences are used, as in, “Have you ...