Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:17:19 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Emily Joyce Subject: Re: Woody Woodpecker attacks. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We had a woodpecker attack on the siding of the Crofton house a number of years ago. Recovery was two-step--get rid of the bees, then replace the siding. It was a nuisance but could have been worse. Emily J. Crownsville Allan Haury wrote: > How about this for a thrilling happening, destructive as it was. > > My wife was sitting in the house when quite a racket started up and lasted > for some time. She thought nothing of it since we live in the woods and > various noises always occur. Later in the afternoon she went outside on our > back porch only to find a 1 1/2 foot section of the railing on the porch in > shreds. She thought that the only thing that could do this kind of work is a > Pileated Woodpecker. Sure enough, there was a long tunnel made by a borer > bee. A little later she heard the noise again and took a look. There was > Woody making splinters out of the cedar railing. As a matter of fact, as I > write this, the Pileated is back working away. > > The borer bees love the cedar for boring their holes. They go in > perpendicular to the surface a short distance and turn at a right angle to > continue the passage for at least another foot as the case is on our > railing. And the holes are a perfectly round 1/2" diameter. Could have used > a drill and come up with the same results. > > I have had Downys drill holes in the cedar siding of the house but nothing > like this. Has any one else experienced this? > > Al Haury > cactuswren@erols.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================