On Aug. 22, 2000, Louisiana State University entomologist Gregg Henderson made a troubling discovery. He was conducting a termite inspection of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, just outside the historic French Quarter, hard by the banks of the Mississippi River. Although Henderson couldn't find any live termites inside the convention center, he did see them on the cinderblock walls ringing nearby parking lots and many of the trees on the property. He turned his back to the building and walked toward the water, and that, he says, is when he got scared. There, between ... Read More