Out-of-towners flock to New Orleans for jazz, great food, and a chance to amble quaint, narrow streets overhung with wrought-iron balconies. What few tourists realize is that wherever they wander in this city, they’re probably within a few feet of hordes of invasive termites. Indeed, New Orleans–and especially its French Quarter–constitutes ground zero of the Formosan subterranean termite’s North American invasion, entomologists say.
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