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 ...

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about the best depth for planting seeds and how many hours per day of light plants need. Small wounds inflicted on a tree by a woodpecker are less concerning ...

Pileated woodpeckers are damaging car mirrors and windshields in a Riverlea, Ohio, neighborhood. The woodpeckers attack the reflective surfaces, likely perceiving their reflections as rivals.

A woodpecker in a Rockport, Massachusetts, neighborhood is known to frequent the local woods, often drilling into dead trees, but he's taken on a new target — the car mirrors and windshields in town.

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. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

US LIVE FROM ROCKPORT RIGHT NOW. EMILY ED MARIA. THIS PESKY WOODPECKER IS THE NEIGHBOR. YOU JUST CAN’T STAND. AND WHILE HE MAY BE BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT, HE IS A MENACE UP HERE ON SQUAM HILL ROAD. HE’S ...

Occasionally, homeowners will notice small holes in the trunks of landscape trees. This may not mean impending death to the tree, but it’s not good. The presence of holes usually means that an insect ...

ROCKPORT, Mass. — Rockport residents have a history of fighting off invaders, but not this time. During the War of 1812, townsfolk in the tiny fishing village hurled rocks at British soldiers using ...

Rockport residents have a history of fighting off invaders, but not this time.During the War of 1812, townsfolk in the tiny fishing village hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as ...