California
A pair of woodpeckers hid over 300 kilos of acorns in the house wall
Two woodpeckers showed incredible diligence in the USA: the animals hid no less than 317 kilos of acorns in a wall in a detached house.
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Tens of thousands of acorns spilled out of an opening in the wall.
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“More and more people just kept coming,” says exterminator Nick Castro.
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He and three employees worked a whole day, …
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… until all acorns were removed. Because they were contaminated with feces and fiberglass, the acorns had to be discarded.
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An exterminator in California recently made an incredible discovery.
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Nick Castro and his associates found tens of thousands of acorns stuck in the wall of a private home.
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He assumes that a pair of woodpeckers collected them for years and hid them there.
Homeowners in Sonoma County, California recently noticed that from the wall in a bedroom of the house worms crawled. They alert Santa Rosa exterminator Nick Castro to clean up the nuisance. He got to work – and found a gigantic stock of acorns. After he had identified the disgusting “subtenants” as mealworms, he took a closer look at the wall – and was amazed: Thousands and thousands of acorns spilled out of an opening that he uncovered a pair of woodpeckers had been hidden there.
Woodpeckers may have collected for years
Only after Castro had opened three more holes did all the acorns appear. “More and more acorns just kept coming out,” he says. “It was pretty incredible to see that crowd.” The owner of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control estimated the weight of the foreign objects discovered to be 700 pounds, well over 300 kilos. Castro assumes that the woodpeckers had collected these and deposited them in the house for the past two to five years.
“It happens again and again that animals find strange ways to enter houses and make fun of us,” says the man, who has worked in his job for 20 years. But he’s never seen anything like it: “On a scale of one to ten, that’s definitely a ten,” he told CNN. “There’s a one in a million chance of finding something like that.” The acorns then filled several large sacks and had to be thrown away – to the chagrin of the woodpeckers. “You must be devastated,” commented a user of Castro’s post on Facebook. “As if a millionaire suddenly lost all the money he worked tirelessly for.”
While woodpeckers are known to gather nuts or acorns and hide them on the outside of houses, such as in gutters, they rarely venture inside. In this case, the animals had dropped the acorns through a hole by the chimney and used a second hole to feast on their treasure.
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