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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Woodpeckers (cautionary note... why are they pecking?)
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:47:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 23:47:45 1985
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This in response to two postings that basically said that
woodpeckers eat bugs and the original poster had a bug
problem to deal with. 

There may be no bugs at all. My folks summer house is covered
with T-111 ( Fancy plywood ) it has voids like most plywood
and at the grooves these voids look like beetle holes. A 
Woodpecker has been so kind as to drill lines of holes 
through the face veneers into these voids. After much
discussion we decided that the birds find dinner by looking
for entry holes, then peck open the tubes, probably following
the tubes path by the sound of the pecking being "hollow"
over tubes. We were very meticulous, there are no bugs.
We don't believe that peckers can smell bugs or ( contrary
to some beliefs ) hear them moving.

I would ask the original poster if there natural voids in 
his siding that can be mistaken for bug tubes, and can they
be covered or filled.

Mike