How Do Woodpeckers Know Where To Peck To Find Food and How Does Pecking Trees Help Find Insects?

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Karen Hill

They have an extremely good sense of hearing.

For example, the hairy woodpecker and pileated woodpecker can actually hear those carpenter ant larvae and get right into a nest of them quite efficiently.

Woodpeckers also tap tree trunks to find the hollow places where insects might be.

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