David777
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Bay Area pest control company removes 700 pounds of acorns from Airbnb
https://www.sfgate.com/local/articl...rbnb-17767368.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
...Castro measured 700 pounds of acorns, to be exact. And there weren’t maggots but mealworms lurking inside of them. The culprit? A couple of woodpeckers who had been poking holes in the chimney stack to stash their food for future meals, only to have their hard-earned snacks fall into the empty wall cavity where they couldn’t retrieve them...
As a California kid, climbed endless oak trees. The above acorns appear to be from our largest most majestic oak species, valley oaks. Woodpecker species are one of my favorite birds, noisy birds often with funny habits. Likely acorn woodpecker, melanerpes formicivorus.
Acorn Woodpeckers also have incredibly fascinating and complex social lives. For example, they live in family groups of up to twelve individuals. These groups cooperate in many aspects, including raising young, finding food, and guarding the food stored in their granaries.