Wood Peckers

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I talked to Chuck Thoreaux this evening from Bountiful Earth (New Smyrna Beach, Florida). He says his bamboo, especially the Parker Giant are getting holes from wood peckers. Anyone else seen this? Any recommendations other than "shooting them".
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Shoot 'em twice
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If the culms are large enough, are they trying to make nests? Do certain bugs make a home in the holes?

I'm not too familiar with how wood peckers operate and I haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn Express for quite some time, so I'm not qualified to help.
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boonut wrote:I talked to Chuck Thoreaux this evening from Bountiful Earth (New Smyrna Beach, Florida). He says his bamboo, especially the Parker Giant are getting holes from wood peckers. Anyone else seen this? Any recommendations other than "shooting them".
No recommendations, but I do have wood peckers doing this to my B. oldhamii. Not a lot of hole, but a few here and there. Sometimes I will have some type of fern that will grow out of the hole the wood peckers made.
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Here is Chucks Parker. There does not seem to be anything inside but the sap or something has been dripping down the culm.


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I hear woodpecker tastes like a cross between spotted owl and bald eagle.
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mike best wrote:Here is Chucks Parker. There does not seem to be anything inside but the sap or something has been dripping down the culm.


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Chuck said you visited. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures you took at his place.
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