Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!amdcad!mike From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Woodpeckers (cautionary note... why are they pecking?) Message-ID: <5634@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:47:45 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.5634 Posted: Thu Oct 31 23:47:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:47:22 EST References: <159@octopus.UUCP> <232@rtp47.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 22 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