Part of Feather Sound sits inside an area that the Southwest Florida Water Management District, the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, and Pinellas County are actively working to restore, officially referred to in their own project materials as the Feather Sound…
A mud tube along the foundation, a scattering of discarded wings by the back door, a board that sounds a little too hollow when you knock on it. None of it looks urgent in the moment, and that's exactly how…
Ellenton has a mix of established homes, newer construction, mature landscaping, and properties that still show the area's agricultural roots. That means termite risk doesn't look exactly the same from one property to the next. An older home with decades…
Hammock Park doesn't receive the same cleanup and maintenance as a typical residential yard. Fallen limbs stay where they land. Old palm fronds decompose into the leaf litter instead of getting bagged and hauled away. Dead wood breaks down slowly,…
Subterranean termites can spend months or even years around a Clearwater home before a homeowner realizes they're here. They live in the ground, travel through soil and mud tubes, and search for cellulose wherever they can find it. In a…
Clearing a grove and clearing a grove property aren't always the same thing. When Citrus Park's citrus rows gave way to subdivisions, not every stump and root system, necessarily disspeared with the trees. Some wood can remain underground long after…
A fifty-year-old oak doesn't keep its roots to itself. By the time a tree planted when Carrollwood Village went in has had five decades to grow, its root system has spread well past the trunk - under the lawn, across…
A mature oak is an established Brandon yard has had thirty years to send roots out in every direction - under the driveway, past the property line, right up agains the foundation. Termites don't need to create those pathways themselves…
A lot of Bradenton was farmland before it was neighborhoods. Developers cleared groves, graded fields, and built houses where citrus trees and crops once grew - but the process often left behind the wood, roots, and debris that subterranean termites…
Subterranean termites cause more structural damage to Florida homes than any other termite species, and Tampa's warm, humid climate keeps them active nearly year-round. Unlike many pests, they can live inside a home for months before anyone notices, quietly building…
