![]() ![]() Most importantly, they store grains, acorns, and peanuts in the late fall for cold winter months. They also take wood-boring insects from a branch or tree trunk. The Lewis’s Woodpeckers mostly eat insects, particularly flying insects. ![]() They occasionally visit suet feeders, especially in the coldest months. They also consume seeds, nuts, acorns, pecans, beechnuts, berries, cultivated fruits, and wild fruits. The red-headed woodpeckers mainly eat flying insects. When the trees are covered with snow, they dine on nuts and fruits. Sometimes, they drink nectar from hummingbird feeders. They also take inner bark and cambium as foods from trees. The Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers eat tree sap, wood-boring insects, and ants. They sometimes eat small fish, tree frogs, and insects including grasshoppers, caterpillars, ants, flies, and beetle larvae. These omnivorous birds consume a wide variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, and tree sap. The Red-Bellied Woodpeckers eat fruits and seeds more than insects. They also eat fruits, nuts, and berries in colder season. They mainly eat insects, especially wood-boring beetle larvae, and carpenter ants by drilling a large oblong hole. The Pileated Woodpeckers are one of the largest woodpecker species out there in the USA and Canada. They dine on these foods by hammering at the soil just like other woodpecker species drill into trees. They also eat seeds and fruits, especially in colder months. Northern Flickers mostly eat insects, such as ants, beetles, anthills, and other insects from the ground. When these insects are not abundant in the wild, they eat various fruits and berries. Over 75% of hairy woodpeckers’ diet consists of insects, especially grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, millipedes, spiders, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, moths, and wood-boring beetles. The rest is seeds and fruits, including black oil sunflower seeds, grain, acorns, berries, millet, peanuts, and chunky peanut butter. The diet of downy woodpeckers contains 75% insects and bugs, including beetles, ants, plant lice, caterpillars, wood-boring larvae, and spiders. Suet, seeds, acorns, beechnuts, pecans, and various fruits and berries Tree sap, fruits, nuts berries, and sometimes arthropods Wood-boring beetles, ants, bees, wasps, caterpillars, spiders, crickets, and grasshoppers.Ĭarpenter ants, wood-boring beetle larvae, fruits, nuts, and berriesįruits, nuts, seeds, berries, tree sap, arboreal arthropods and invertebrates Woodpecker Diet By Types Nameīlack Oil Sunflower Seeds, Millet, Peanuts, and Chunky Peanut Butter However, a few woodpecker species, like Red-breasted Sapsuckers, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Williamson’s Sapsuckers, and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers eat tree sap on a regular basis. Some woodpeckers eat tree sap, especially when other food sources are not abundant. ![]()
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