This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. In the summer of 1987 a Dallas homeowner named Kane St. John made a disturbing discovery. Spotting what he took to be some rotting wood on the steps of a breezeway connecting his home to the garage, he pulled at one of the slats. It came off in his hands and seemed suspiciously light. Easily splitting apart the crumbly wood, he found pencil-thin tunnels, each containing a translucent white grub. Termites! He would have to call an exterminator.Though troubling, the evidence St. John unearthed was hardly uncommon. Every year about 200,000 Texans act on…The post Poisoned by Their Own Home appeared first on Texas Monthly.