320 kg of acorns were scattered through a hole in the wall of the house… What happened?

320 kg of acorns fell from the wall of a house in California, USA. The culprit who collected the acorns was a woodpecker.

According to NBC News and others on the 6th (local time), a pest control company in the United States introduced related content and photos through SNS, saying, “I have been working for more than 20 years, and I have never seen an acorn sheep.”

A resident in California called the pest control company, saying, “There are little bugs that look like maggots coming out of the walls.” The worm was a type of mealworm often found inside nuts such as acorns.

The dispatched staff looked around the house and found a woodpecker making a hole around the roof chimney and inserting acorns. It was the ‘Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivoru)’ that stored acorns by digging holes in oak trees.

The woodpecker entered the house through an attic vent hole. Since then, they have been collecting food for the winter by pushing acorns into holes they have drilled. There was about 20 feet (6 m) of piles from the basement to the attic. Hundreds of holes were also drilled in the tree in front of the house.

About 320 kg of acorns fell from the wall of a house located in California, USA. Facebook

Netizens responded, “It feels like a millionaire suddenly lost all his money” and “The woodpecker went bankrupt in an instant.” Some netizens expressed their concerns, such as “I hope you will return the acorns” and “I am worried that you may have lost your hiding place.”

The pest control company said the acorns had to be thrown away because they were covered in fiber, glass and rodent droppings.

A woodpecker can punch a hole in a tree by moving its beak 20 times a second. In particular, the acorn woodpecker has a habit of storing acorns by making holes in trees and doorposts of houses. Up to 20,000 to 30,000 holes are drilled in a tree to store acorns for the winter.

Source: Donga

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