Pest exterminator Nick Castro actually expected a normal operation after a couple in California called him about some worms crawling out of their wall. But what he discovered behind the wall of the house will probably stay with him for a long time.
The homeowners had discovered tiny mealworms in their bedroom, apparently coming out of the wall. They shouted “Nick’s Extreme Pest Control” and the boss left himself. When he cut a hole in the wall to get to the bottom of the infestation, Nick and the homeowners were stunned.
300 kilos of acorns hidden
Because behind the wall, a pair of particularly hard-working woodpeckers had bunkered a total of 300 kilos of acorns – in which the mealworms apparently felt at home. “The mass alone was incredible,” the exterminator tells CNN, “I cut open the wall and more and more came out of the hole.” The woodpeckers may have used the pair’s house wall for years to store their supplies in the bunker.
Originally, the woodpeckers probably hid the acorns in the wooden beams and struts of the house, from where they then fell into the crevices in the walls. “Usually you’ll find a few handfuls of acorns in a suitcase like this, but that’s quite a lot. On a scale of 1 to 10 in my line of work, that’s definitely a 10. That kind of thing almost never happens,” reports Nick Castro.
Exterior cladding should help
The woodpeckers would soon have to flee given the disturbance of the peace and the clearing of their food supply. The homeowners will now attach appropriate panels to the exterior facade to prevent such an accident in the future.
Source: Krone
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