Woodpecker damage to wooden utility poles is increasing, leading to higher replacement costs and operational challenges for utilities. Strategies such as replacing wooden poles with metal or concrete, ...

Here’s what to do if a woodpecker starts pecking on your house.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woodpeckers also may find a knot hole in wood siding and think it looks like a great place to start excavating for a nest. Or they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood.

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...