Here’s what to do if a woodpecker starts pecking on your house. You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead ...

As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.

A downy woodpecker taps away at a crabapple tree in Colorado. Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...