Oh nuts! Woodpeckers stash THOUSANDS of acorns inside the wall of a California home with pest control forced to remove 700 pounds worth of the bird food in eight trash bags
- Woodpeckers filled up the walls with the tiny nuts after pecking holes
- The determined birds were still hanging around even when pest control left
- Nick Castro, for Nick’s Extreme Pest Control, said it was the ‘craziest’ experience
A pest control boss got more than he bargained for when he received a call claiming worms were coming out of a wall in a California home.
Nick Castro was left stunned when he opened up the wall and thousands of tiny acorns fell out.
A hungry woodpecker had been attempting to store the acorns in the chimney of the property in San Francisco.
The bird pecked holes in the chimney, putting the nuts inside but then losing them inside the wall cavity.
But instead of stopping, the woodpecker continued filling up the walls with thousands of acorns.
When Castro, of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California, cut into the wall, the nuts cascaded to the floor.
Nick Castro was left stunned when he opened up a wall and thousands of tiny acorns fell out – after a hungry woodpecker tried to store them in the chimney of the property in San Francisco
The bird had been pecking holes in the chimney, putting the nuts inside but then losing them inside the wall cavity
He told The Dodo: ‘There were some worms that appeared to be coming out of the wall, and the worms looked like maggots.
‘Everybody kind of thought there was a dead animal inside the wall. It was unreal.
‘We see weird stuff all the time, but I’d never seen anything like this. They just kept coming and coming, non-stop.
‘Acorns were thought to be only about a quarter of the way up the wall. Turned out, they were piled high up to the attic of the house.
‘The bird had completely destroyed the exterior of the house with the holes it had made. Acorns were stored all over siding and trim.’
His team measured that there was 700lb of acorns and filler around eight 40-gallon trash bags full of the tiny nuts.
Castro had to open up four different holes in the walls to remove the acorns, which were covered in fiberglass insulation.
The process took his team hours, with the acorns then loaded into a van and hauled off to the dump.
Castro, of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California, cut into the wall, and the nuts cascaded to the floor
His team measured that there was 700lb of acorns and filler around eight 40-gallon trash bags full of the tiny nuts
Castro had to open up four different holes in the walls to remove the acorns, which were covered in fiberglass insulation
Pest control boss Castro was left feeling guilty about disposing of the birds hard earned foot, adding that they saw the birds overhead as they were leaving.
He said: ‘We actually saw him there when we were there putting more in the holes he created.
They were pretty creative, that’s how we knew exactly what they were doing.’
Castro added that the structure was sealed so the birds couldn’t get back in, and encouraged the homeowner to install vinyl siding to prevent further damage.
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