This species of bird uses trees for winter storage, which are called granary trees and may have up to 50,000 holes, each filled with an acorn. The acorn woodpecker’s main food source is insects, but acorns serve as key nutritional backup, allowing the birds to make it through the winter.

Trypophobia trigger alert

      • thefluffiestEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Probably not. It’s not the holes that unsettle me, it’s more the acorns looking like some nasty sort of maggots I think

        • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
          7·
          11 months ago

          That’s the general thinking behind what trypophobia really is. Not so much a phobia as a triggering of our innate disgust reaction to things that look similar to disease