Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!homxb!hrs From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Woodpeckers Message-ID: <880@homxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 13:19:47 EST Article-I.D.: homxb.880 Posted: Mon Oct 28 13:19:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:19:47 EST References: <933@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 12 I don't know anything about woodpeckers, but had a problem with squirrels nesting in my attic, coming in under the eaves. I Called an exterminator, who informed me they would come and trap them, at $ 80.- a visit. Apparently it is illegal to kill them in NJ. What I did was to spray their nesting area with bug killer. They apparently did not like the smell, and after a few applications stayed away, after which I blocked their entrance.homxb